Trees

    A lush landscape provides the setting for a picnic, complete with fruit and beverages in Chinese-style blue-and-white vessels.
    Two men sit in conversation, one writing and holding a safina (an oblong format book typically containing poetry), flanked by a man standing on the left and a woman on the right carrying a covered bowl decorated with Chinese designs.
    The patterned robes, silk sashes, and striped turbans resemble costumes depicted in seventeenth-century Persian drawings and paintings.

Versailles

    Renoir's later career consisted of more traditionally inspired motifs.
    This autumn landscape shows a view of the courtyard on the north side of the chateau of Versailles.
    Chestnut trees line the allée and are painted softly with detached brushwork in vibrant colors of the season.