Landscape at Beaulieu
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste.
Oil on canvas. 65.3x81.5 cm
France. 1899
Source of Entry: formerly in the collection of Otto Krebs, Holzdorf.
Transferred from Germany after World War II

Beaulieu, on the Mediterranean near Nice, attracted Renoir and he stayed in this little village several times. The present landscape with a road running through the middle framed by trees parted like stage curtains is constructed like a theatre set, a far cry from the principles of immediacy and vividness advocated by Impressionism. This is a kind of pastiche, but even when looking back to the 18th century, Renoir remained original in his "variations on a Rococo theme".