
Mystery and Melancholy of a Street
1914 · Private collection
A girl rolls a hoop down an arcaded street toward a shadow coming around the corner, in light that belongs to no hour.
★ 8.3

A girl rolls a hoop down an arcaded street toward a shadow coming around the corner, in light that belongs to no hour.

She stands in a garden in a blue dress holding a watering can, and Renoir spends the rest of the canvas on light.

Two girls walking under trees, the elder leading the younger, everything blurred into one shimmer of dappled light and pale dress.