During the first two decades of his career as a painter, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) learned a lot about his craft by doing landscape paintings.
Perhaps because he was freed from the concern of representing humans (friends or patrons who might, possibly, have been unhappy with their painted image!), Renoir performed his most audacious experiments in light, colour, form (or lack thereof) and brushwork in scenes of woods, gardens, water and land.
The painting of The Jardin d’Essai, Algiers painted in 1881, records his travels to Algeria. The image shows a view of a popular tourist sight in the city of Algiers, a botanical garden, described in the loose brushstrokes and brilliant colours typical of Renoir’s experimental approach to landscape. painting.
This painting is my homage to his.