![]() ![]() That’s the first time I noticed, after dozens of prior visits, a vase resting on a plant stand right below the painting, which was similarly glazed in cobalts and teals, establishing an implicit chromatic connection between canvas and vessel. PHILADELPHIA - On a visit to the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pennsylvania, well before the museum’s move to Philadelphia’s Center City in 2012, a friend and I paused before one of the collection’s 181 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) to admire how the Impressionist painter intensified his strokes of cobalt blue with daubs of teal. ![]() Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Jean as a Huntsman” (“Jean en chasseur” 1910), oil on canvas, 68 x 35 in, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Gift through the Generosity of the Late Mr. ![]()
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