BUTTE, Mont. (AP) – A painting by Pierre Auguste Renoir and masterpieces by three other artists go on display Monday at the Butte Archives as part of a six-week showing.

The Montana Standard reports the paintings will be on display until Oct. 24.

Renoir’s View from Cap Martin of Monte Carlo is an oil on canvas painted about 1884. It is one of the four paintings on loan from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Paul Greenhalgh of the Corcoran Gallery tells The Montana Standard that Renoir made the painting while traveling with Claude Monet about the time the two just about invented Impressionism.”

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Information from: The Montana Standard, http://www.mtstandard.com

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