Beach Scene
This tiny watercolor was made on the southeast coast of Guernsey, an island in the English Channel. Renoir took great delight in Guernsey, as he remarked in a letter to his dealer Paul Durand-Ruel. There is “no better sight than this mixture of women and men crowded together on these rocks. You would think you were in a landscape by Watteau rather than in real life. I will therefore have a source of real, graceful subjects of which I’ll be able to make use.”
Artwork Details
- Title: Beach Scene
- Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
- Date: 1883
- Medium: Pen and brown ink with watercolor wash on buff paper, darkened
- Dimensions: 3 3/8 x 4 3/4 in. (8.5 x 12 cm)
- Classification: Drawings
- Credit Line: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
- Object Number: 1975.1.687
- Curatorial Department: The Robert Lehman Collection
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