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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841 – December 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, the child of a working class family. As a boy, he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talents led to him being chosen to paint designs on fine china. He also painted hangings for overseas missionaries and decorations on fans before he enrolled in art school. During those early years, he often visited the Louvre to study the French master painters. In 1862 he began studying art under Charles Gleyre in Paris. There he met Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille, and Claude Monet. At times during the 1860s, he did not have enough money to buy paint. Although Renoir first started exhibiting paintings at the Paris Salon in 1864, recognition did not come for another ten years, due, in part, to the turmoil of the Franco-Prussian War.
During the Paris Commune in 1871, while he painted on the banks of the Seine River, some members of a commune group thought he was a spy, and were about to throw him into the river when a commune leader, Raoul Rigault, recognized Renoir as the man who had protected him on an earlier occasion.
Around 1892, Renoir developed rheumatoid arthritis. In 1907, he moved to the warmer climate of “Les Collettes,” a farm at Cagnes-sur-Mer, close to the Mediterranean coast.
Renoir’s paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.

Self-portrait, 1910
Oil on canvas, Private collection ▼

The great boulevards, 1875
Oil on canvask,
Private collection, New York, USA ▼

Little Miss Romaine Lacaux, 1864
Oil on canvas,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA ▼

Portrait of Mademoiselle Sicot, 1865
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Young man walking with dogs in Fontainebleau Forest, 1866
Oil on canvas,
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil ▼

The Pont des Arts, Paris, 1867
Oil on canvas,
Norton Simon Foundation, Los Angeles, USA ▼

Alfred Sisley and his wife, 1868
Oil on canvas,
▼ Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Köln, Germany

In the summer, 1868
Oil on canvas,
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany ▼

Girl and golden hat, 1884 ▼

Barges on the Seine, 1869
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

The promenade, 1870
Oil on canvas,
British Rail Pension Fund, UK ▼

Bather (La Baigneuse au griffon), 1870
Oil on canvas,
Museu de Arte de Sao Paolo,
Assis Chateaubriand Sao Paolo, Brazil ▼

Madame Monet reading “Le Figaro”, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal ▼

The gust of wind, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK ▼

Pont Neuf, Paris, 1872
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

A morning ride in the Bois de Boulogne, 1872
Oil on canvas,
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany ▼

View of Argenteuil, 1873
Oil on canvas,
Louvre Museum, Paris, France ▼

The Seine at Argenteuil, 1873
Oil on canvas,
Portland Museum of Art, Main, USA ▼

Madame Monet with her son, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Private collection ▼

La Loge, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, UK ▼

Garden at Fontenay, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland ▼

Country footpath in the summer, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

The parisienne, 1874
Oil on canvas,
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK ▼

The dancer, 1874
Oil on canvas,
▼ The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA

Portrait of Charles Le Cœur, 1874
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Conversation with the gardener, 1875
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Woman reading, 1876
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

The first outing, 1876
Oil on canvas,
National Gallery, London, UK ▼

Woman with a cat, 1875
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

A girl with a watering-can, 1876
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Portrait of Madame Alphonse Daudet, 1876
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Banks of the Seine at Champrosay, 1876
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Man on a Staircase (L’Homme sur un escalier), 1876
Oil on canvas,
▼ The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

Woman on a Staircase (Femme sur un escalier), 1876
Oil on canvas
▼ The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

La Moulin de la Galette, 1876
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Young woman braiding her hair, 1876
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Portrait of Madame Henriot, 1877
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Madame Charpentier with her children, 1878
Oil on canvas,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ▼

Oarsmen at Chatou, 1879
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Portrait of Alphonsine Fournaise, 1879
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Banks of the Seine at Asnieres, 1897
Oil on canvas,
National Gallery, London, UK ▼

The luncheon of the boating party, 1880
Oil on canvas,
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA ▼

Still life with peaches, 1880
Oil on canvas,
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France ▼

By the lake, 1880
Oil on canvas,
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA ▼

A woman playing the guitar, 1880
Oil on canvas,
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, France ▼

Woman with A Dog (Portrait of Madame Renoir), 1880
Oil on canvas,
Private collection, Paris, France ▼

Two sisters (On the terrace), 1881
Oil on canvas,
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA ▼

Mother and child, 1881
Oil on canvas,
Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA ▼

The luncheon of the boating party, 1881
Oil on canvas,
Phillips Collection, Washington DC, USA ▼

Doges’ Palace, Venice, 1881
Oil on canvas,
Sterling and Francine Clark Institute,
Williamstown, MA, USA ▼

St. Mark’s Square, Venice, 1881
Oil on canvas,
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, USA ▼

Two girls in black, 1881
Oil on canvas,
The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia ▼

Field of banana trees, 1881
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Reading children, 1883
Pastel on paper,
Private collection, Germany ▼

Young Girl with Parasol (Aline Nunes), 1883
Oil on canvas,
Collection David-Weill, Paris, France ▼

Ebbing Tide at Yport (Marée basse à Yport), 1883
Oil on canvas,
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

By the seashore, 1883
Oil on canvas,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ▼

Children on the beach of Guernesey, 1883
Oil on canvas,
Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA ▼

Dance at Bougival (Suzanne Valadon and Paul Lhote), 1883
Oil on canvas,
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA ▼

Country Dance (Aline Charigot and Paul Lhote), 1883
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

City Dance (Suzanne Valadon and Eugène Pierre Lestringuez), 1883
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Children’s afternoon at Wargemont, 1884
Oil on canvas,
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany ▼

Portrait of Caroline Rémy (”Séverine”), 1885
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

Child with a whip, 1885
Oil on canvas
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Girl with a Hoop (Marie Goujon), 1885
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA ▼

In the Garden. (Dans le jardin), 1885
Oil on canvas,
The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Mother nursing her child (Aline and Pierre), 1886
Oil on canvas,
Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL, USA ▼

Canoeing, 1877
Oil on canvas, Private collection ▼

Young girl reading, 1886
Oil on canvas,
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie,
Frankfurt, Germany ▼

Garden scene in Britanny, 1886
Oil on canvas,
Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA ▼

Aline and Pierre, 1887
Oil on canvas,
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA ▼

Little girl gleaning, 1888
Oil on canvas,
Museu de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Sao Paulo, Brazil ▼

The daughters of Catulle Mendés, 1888
Oil on canvas,
Private collection, New York, USA ▼

The washer-women, 1889
Oil on canvas,
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA ▼

Girl with a basket of oranges, 1889
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art,
Washington DC, USA ▼

Girl with a basket of fish, 1889
Oil on canvas,
The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC USA ▼

On the meadow, 1890
Oil on canvas,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA ▼

Woman in a red blouse, 1895
Oil on canvas, Private collection ▼

Girls at the piano, 1892
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Young woman wearing a hat with flowers, 1892
Oil on canvas,
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Noirmoutier, 1892
Oil on canvas,
Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, USA ▼

Gabrielle with Renoir’s children, 1894
Pastel on paper, Private collection ▼

Apples and Flowers (Les pommes et fleurs), 1896
Oil on canvas,
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

View of the New Building of the Sacre-Cœur, 1896
Oil on canvas,
Brigdestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan ▼

The Family of the artist, 1896
Oil on canvas,
Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, USA ▼

Yvonne and Christine Lerolle playing the piano, 1897
Oil on canvas,
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France ▼

Landscape in Berneval with people, 1898
Oil on canvas,
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ▼

Terrace at Cagnes, 1905
Oil on canvas,
Brigdestone Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan ▼

The walk, 1906
Oil on canvas,
Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, USA ▼

The clown, 1909
Oil on canvas,
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, France ▼

Young girls by the water ▼

Seated Young Girl (Hélène Bellon), 1909
Oil on canvas,
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France ▼

Jean Renoir sewing, 1900
Oil on canvas, 55,4 x 46,5 cm
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud,
Köln, Germany ▼

La coiffure, 1888
Oil on canvas, private collection ▼