This hall presents genre scenes, landscapes and still lifes produced by the famous Impressionist Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) between 1883 and 1917. (His portraits are in Hall 407.) The large canvas In the Garden (1885) is one of the artist’s most significant works and may well have been inspired by love for his future wife, Aline Charigot.
Here too are paintings belonging to the tendency known as Neo-Impressionism: Fort Samson. Grandcamp (1885) by the founder of pointillism (painting with tiny dabs of pure colour) Georges Seurat (1859–1891) and works by his followers Paul Signac (1863–1935) and Henri Edmond Cross (1856–1910).
