Girls at the Seashore
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (c.1890–1894)
Girls at the Seashore presents two young figures reclining on a grassy bank, their straw hats trimmed with flowers as they look toward a hazy waterway flecked with small sails. Renoir fuses figure and setting through soft, vaporous brushwork so that skin, fabric, foliage, and sea share the same light. The image is an ode to <strong>reverie</strong>, <strong>companionship</strong>, and the <strong>fleeting</strong> warmth of summer.
