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A Girl with a Watering Can

1876 · Oil on canvas

A small girl in a blue dress holds a watering can on a garden path, surrounded by flowers painted in Renoir's soft, feathery touch.

ArtistPPierre-Auguste Renoir
MuseumNNational Gallery of Art
MovementIImpressionism
LocationWashington, D.C., United States
Genregenre art
Dimensions100 × 73 cm
SourceWikidata Q4657050

Why it matters

A little girl in a blue dress stands in a garden holding a watering can. Renoir apparently painted it in Claude Monet's garden at Argenteuil.

Did you know?

  • It was painted in 1876.
  • The girl may be one of the children from Renoir's neighbourhood.
  • It is in the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

Based on the Wikipedia article A Girl with a Watering Can (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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