Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Environs of Berneval; Pierre-Auguste Renoir; 1879; Oil on canvas; This painting represents the rolling countryside behind the cliffs at Pourville; a small seaside resort town in northern France. Renoir depicted this little hamlet in several canvases from 1879. As in many of his landscapes of the 1870s; Renoir chose a very unconventional viewpoint. The viewer is seemingly located deep among the foreground bushes; which frame the right margin but also run across the entire foreground; denying us any clear foothold in the space depicted.; Overall: 18 1/8 x 21 7/8 in. (46 x 55.5 cm)