5037516 Conversation with the Gardener, c.1870 (oil on canvas) by Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919); 45x38 cm; National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden; (add.info.: The hands and faces of the figures are painted with thin, parallel brushstrokes which give the effect of flickers of light and the painting is an example of the Impressionists??reluctance to use black, the dark sections painted in dark blue. The man in the painting is Frederic Cordey, and artist who was at one point a student of Renoir???. The woman has been identified as Marguerite Legrand, one of Renoir??? favourite models during this period..).