Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
Renoir felt that he had greater freedom to experiment in still lifes than in figure paintings. "When I paint flowers, I feel free to try out tones and values and worry less about destroying the canvas," he told the writer Georges Rivière. "I would not do this with a figure painting since there I would care about destroying the work."
Artwork Details
- Title: Bouquet of Chrysanthemums
- Artist: Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)
- Date: 1881
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 26 x 21 7/8 in. (66 x 55.6 cm)
- Classification: Paintings
- Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
- Object Number: 2003.20.10
- Curatorial Department: European Paintings
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