Renoir’s Promenade Comes to Magnani Rocca from the Getty Museum in LA

The Villa dei Capolavori is celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Impressionism with an international event: from September 1st to December 15th, the Fondazione Magnani-Rocca in Mamiano di Traversetolo will host La Promenade by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, one of the most fascinating paintings by the French artist and of all Impressionism. The painting comes from the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles for an absolute first in Italy, as part of an important collaboration between the two museums.
Renoir’s Promenade will be exhibited at the Villa dei Capolavori together with Monet, Cézanne and the two Renoirs from the Permanent Collection, which represent the richest and most important nucleus of French painting from the Impressionist period visible in Italy. Painted in 1870, Promenade is considered one of the highest results of Renoir’s production and anticipates the revolution that will change the course of the history of art: Impressionism, a movement that was officially born on 15 April 1874 with the first exhibition of a group of young artists – Monet, Degas, Pissarro, Morisot and Renoir – ready to break the rules of academic art, who for some years had already been experimenting with the new painting made of light and nature en plein air.
Stylistically, La Promenade is a tribute to previous artists whom Renoir greatly admired, such as Watteau and Fragonard. But unlike the images of seduction created by his predecessors, Renoir’s is an instantaneous image captured with spontaneity: two young people immersed in nature, perhaps in a park, not posing against the backdrop of an atelier. (ANSA).