Landscape with Woman Gardening (Paysage et femme jardinant)

Landscape with Woman Gardening, 1896, belongs to a subgroup within Renoir's outdoor figure work—women engaged in garden tasks—that he produced throughout the 1890s when he was spending time at Essoyes and painting the vegetable gardens and flower beds that Aline Renoir managed. The gardening woman is a distinctly domestic version of the plein-air figure, rooted in the specific productive world of the bourgeois country garden rather than the leisure spaces of Impressionism's parks and promenades. The Barnes Foundation holds this work as part of its broad documentation of his figural range.

The woman is integrated into the landscape through overlapping green and ochre passages, with her clothing in lighter tones providing contrast against the vegetation. Renoir uses directional strokes of varied greens and yellows to build the garden setting, with the figure treated with slightly tighter modelling.