Oarsmen at Chatou

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1879 · Oil on canvas · National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

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About this work

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919)
Year: 1879
Medium: Oil on canvas
Original size: 81.2 × 100.2 cm
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Movement: Impressionism

A bright afternoon on the Seine at Chatou, the boating village west of Paris where Renoir spent much of the late 1870s. A woman and two men stand on the grassy bank beside a rowing skiff while another oarsman waits on the water, and the river behind them is a shimmer of blue, white and orange reflections. Renoir painted it in 1879, between La Grenouillère a decade earlier and Luncheon of the Boating Party, and it belongs to the same world of weekend rowing, pleasure and sunlight. The National Gallery of Art records that it may have been shown at the seventh Impressionist exhibition in 1882 under the title Canotiers. Renoir sold the canvas to Durand-Ruel in 1911; it later passed to the New York collector Adolph Lewisohn, whose son Sam gave it to the Gallery in Washington in 1951.

This exhibition-poster edition shows the whole work beneath original typography set in-house. The original is in the public domain.

Details & materials

• Exhibition poster — original, drawn in-house • Heavyweight matte fine-art paper, giclée printed at 300 DPI • Sizes: 12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in; 16×24 and 24×36 also available framed in black or natural wood • Made to order; colours may vary slightly from screen

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Is this the whole painting, or a crop?

The whole work, uncropped. The exhibition-poster edition sets the complete image above typography designed in-house.

Is Oarsmen at Chatou in the public domain?

Yes. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) died more than 70 years ago and the work was published before 1929, so the painting itself is public domain. This print is a reproduction made from a high-resolution scan of the original, which is held by National Gallery of Art.

What is it printed on?

Heavyweight matte fine-art paper with pigment inks, made to order in 12×18, 16×24 and 24×36 inches; the two larger sizes are also offered framed. Colours are matched to the scan, not brightened.

When was Oarsmen at Chatou painted, and in what medium?

Oarsmen at Chatou dates from 1879 and was made in oil on canvas; the original measures 81.2 × 100.2 cm.

What size works above a sofa or bed?

For a standard three-seat sofa or a queen bed, 24×36 inches reads as a single statement piece; 16×24 suits a narrower wall or a pairing. The print's proportions follow the original, so a landscape-format painting is wider than it is tall.

About this design

A museum-exhibition poster of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Oarsmen at Chatou — rowers and friends at the water's edge at Chatou, orange skiffs on a sparkling Seine — shown whole and uncropped beneath gallery typography. Impressionism and Modern Life, styled as a blockbuster exhibition print. A gallery-style exhibition poster: a celebrated public-domain artwork shown whole and uncropped beneath original exhibition typography set in-house — printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper. Three sizes (12×18, 16×24, 24×36 in); the 16×24 and 24×36 are also offered framed. Part of the Madten Exhibition Posters Collection. — — — Printed to order and shipped by our production partner, Gelato.

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