Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1872) "Le Pont Neuf" (photo Milwaukee Art Museum)

This Renoir exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art is billed as the first large display of landscape paintings by an artist best known for portraits, figures and nudes.
This show should be a revelation for Renoir idolaters and skeptics alike. The consistent subject matter encourages an unusual concentration on surface and technique. It proves that Renoir’s textures, far from being rote, vary almost willfully from canvas to canvas and even shift quite a bit within a single work. Roberta Smith. Lire la suite http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/arts/design/05reno.html?ex=1349323200&en=f4ef87566a450acb&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

"Village Street (Louveciennes)" (circa 1871-2) (Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art)

"Landscape at Wargemont" (1879) (Photo: Toledo Museum of Art)

"The Wave" (1882) (Photo: Dixon Gallery and Gardens)

"The Grands Boulevards" (1875) (Photo: Philadelphia Museum of Art)

"Venice, the Doge's Palace" (1881) (Photo: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

"The Skiff (La Yole)" (1875) (Photo: National Gallery, London)

"Algerian Landscape, 'The Ravine of the Wild Woman'" (1881) (Photo: Musee d'Orsay, Paris)

"Le Pont de Chatou" (1875) (Photo: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute)

"Monet Painting in His Garden in Argenteuil" (circa 1873) (Photo: Wadsworth Athenaeum)

“Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883” is on view through Jan. 6 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Benjamin Franklin Parkway at 26th Street