Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Nude in a Landscape (Nu dans un paysage); Pierre-Auguste Renoir; c. 1917; Oil on canvas; For Renoir; appealing to the viewer's tactile sense was essential when painting the naked body. 'A nude is not done until I feel I can reach out and touch it;' he said. In this painting produced close to the end of his life; Renoir seems to insist on the physicality of his figure. Velvety flesh; created with layers of thin glazes; fills the canvas; the woman's body seems ready to spill into our space.; Overall: 32 x 24 1/8 in. (81.3 x 61 cm)