the walk auguste renoirPainted in 1870, The Walk is one of the most charming works of Auguste Renoir's youth, made just before the Franco Prussian War momentarily interrupted his career. The painting belongs to the tradition of the French eighteenth century fte galante, inherited from Antoine Watteau and Jean Honor Fragonard, whose grace and lightness Renoir greatly admired. This kinship with rococo painting, transposed into a contemporary natural setting, would become a