A Girl with a Watering Can was originally created in Monet’s gardens at Argenteuil by Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir around 1876. The girl is known to be little golden haired Mademoiselle Leclere in her best blue dress: Thought to be the child of one of Renoir’s patrons. The blue of the dress and the fair hair work well within the fresh background: Altogether creating a bright, unsullied feel to this oil painting – Even so there is a certain amount of ‘formality’ still present is this Impressionist style oil painting: Although that could have been created more by the pose of the child than Renoir’s early ebb toward more representational art works.

A Girl with a Watering Can reflects Renoir’s love of using saturated primary colors: The dress, the bow in the hair as well as the grasses and wildflowers in the foreground. It is this which gives Renoir’s oil paintings a clean and bright outlook. The brushstrokes apply the paint singularly, not blended allowing the eye to mix the colors together to create new hues – Typical of Renoir’s style. Still modern and fresh this is a beautiful Impressionist oil painting that would suit many styles of decor: The reproduction we supply is hand painted to the highest standards and reflects all the qualities of the original: A notable work of art.