Ten years after Renoir's Portraits, the National Gallery of Canada now invites you to enter his exterior settings: maybe it is a windswept field in Chatou, an old private garden in Paris, the streets of Algiers, or a hillside in Guernsey? These are among the sites that the French Impressionist Master captured and which will be presented in the first major exhibition of his landscape paintings, drenched in light and vibrant with colour. It features 70 of Renoir's most beautiful landscape paintings, on loan from leading art museums and private collections around the world. Ottawa is the only Canadian venue.

Organized by the National Gallery of Canada, the National Gallery, London and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the show features 70 of Renoir's most beautiful landscape paintings, on loan from leading art museums and private collections around the world.

Presented by Sun Life.

Not since the National Gallery of Canada's 1997 exhibition Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age, which set an attendance record of 340,000 visitors, have Ottawa-Gatineau audiences had the opportunity to view Renoir's works on such a scale. Renoir Landscapes builds on this un-precendented success and on the expertise of its acclaimed co-curators, Colin B. Bailey, Chief Curator of the Frick Collection in New York and formerly the National Gallery of Canada's Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and Christopher Riopelle, Curator of 19th-Century painting at the National Gallery, London.