A Girl with a Watering Can by Renoir: A Summer Garden

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A small girl in a summer garden

A little girl in a blue dress with a lace collar stands on a garden path, holding a green watering can and a few daisies. A red bow sits in her blonde hair. Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted the picture in 1876, at the height of Impressionism. It belongs to the National Gallery of Art in Washington.

A soft, rosy face

Rosy face with blue eyes and a red bow — A soft, rosy face.

Her face is round and rosy, with large blue eyes and a small smile. Renoir painted it with soft, blended strokes, in contrast with the rougher touches of the garden around her.

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A watering can and daisies

Green watering can and white daisies — A watering can and daisies.

She holds the green can against her dress, together with a few white daisies. The can is almost as big as her torso, which adds to the charm of the picture.

A garden in dabs of colour

Flowerbeds in dabs of red, pink and green — A garden in dabs of colour.

Behind her, flowerbeds are painted in quick dabs of red, pink and green. The garden seems to shimmer in the summer light.

Signature Renoir 76 on the path — Signed Renoir 76.

Renoir signed and dated the canvas “Renoir. 76.” at the lower right, on the path.

Questions about A Girl with a Watering Can

When was it painted?

In 1876.

Where is it?

National Gallery of Art, Washington, Chester Dale Collection.

Who is the girl?

Her identity is not known for certain.

How large is it?

About 100 × 73 centimetres, oil on canvas.

Sources and image credit

Public-domain reproduction of A Girl with a Watering Can (1876), via Wikimedia Commons. Detail images are crops of the same historical painting; no reconstruction or upscaling.