Woman in the Garden — Renoir, 1873, Hermitage, Art Postcard

Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted Woman in the Garden in 1873, in the early years when Impressionism was a noisy argument in Paris and a quiet light in his canvases. A garden alley fills with summer flowers; a single figure with a parasol walks away into the depth of the path. The painting is held in the collection of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg. As a postcard, it works well for friends who love slow gardens, for an art-history reader, and for the corner of a journal that needs a calm green page. Browse the full Renoir postcard collection.