Sea and Cliffs

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Artist: Auguste Renoir
Date: ca. 1885
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 1/4 x 25 in. (51.4 x 63.5 cm)
Department: Robert Lehman Collection
Holding institution: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Palette: Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #B0AC91 · 21%

Blue Rag Paper · Blue family · #8393A9 · 19%

Faded Gilt · Yellow family · #BDA157 · 9%

Parchment Ochre · Yellow family · #BEAB76 · 9%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #7E7244 · 7%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #83979C · 7%

Olive Ground · Yellow family · #928868 · 6%

Pine Needle · Green family · #4E562A · 6%

Golden Bole · Yellow family · #BA912B · 6%

Pine Needle · Green family · #112718 · 3%

Raw Sienna Bank · Brown family · #BDA494 · 2%

Pewter Vessel · Gray family · #9B8581 · 1%

Zinc Ground · Gray family · #90A192 · 1%

Lapis Dust · Blue family · #415677 · 1%

Aged Vellum · Yellow family · #D8D5B1 · <1%

Lampblack · Black family · #020208 · <1%

Silverpoint Paper · Gray family · #BCCAD7 · <1%

Azurite Panel · Blue family · #406BA7 · <1%

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Image provider: metropolitan-museum-of-art
License: CC0-1.0
Credit: Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

9 tags

Landscapes Both · 99%

The museum lists Landscapes as a subject, and the image clearly depicts a coastal landscape with cliffs, shore, sky, and water.
Waterscapes Both · 98%

The title refers to the sea, and the image is dominated by a broad expanse of water and a shoreline with cliffs.
Nautical Both · 99%

The museum lists Boats as a subject, and multiple boats, including sailboats, are visibly distributed across the water.

Impressionism Interpretive · 82%

The loose plein-air-like handling, emphasis on atmospheric light and color, and Renoir’s period place the work within an Impressionist reading, although the supplied museum metadata does not specify a style.

Bright and Vivid Colors Visual · 90%

The painting uses a luminous, varied palette of blues, turquoise, yellow, ocher, green, orange, pink, and lavender.

Oil Painting Metadata · 100%

The museum records the medium as oil on canvas.
Large Brushstrokes/Loose Brushwork Visual · 97%

The surface is articulated by broad, visibly separate diagonal strokes across the sky, cliffs, and water, rather than by smoothly blended passages.

Late 19th Century Art Metadata · 97%

The work is dated ca. 1885, placing it in the late nineteenth century.

French Art Metadata · 86%

The museum identifies Renoir as French; this tag refers to the artist’s cataloged national association, not to a confirmed geographic location depicted in the scene.

Auguste Renoir. Sea and Cliffs. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.