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Versailles (1900-1905)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Versailles 1900–1905 Oil on canvas, 52.1 x 63.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renouncing the informal approach of Impressionist painters during his later career, Renoir returned to more traditionally inspired motifs. This autumn landscape shows…

Une route à Louveciennes (c.1870)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une route à Louveciennes (A Road in Louveciennes) c.1870 Oil on canvas, 38.1 x 46.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture, which is in effect drawn directly with paint, was almost certainly executed out-of-doors…

Une jeune fille avec des marguerites (1889)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une jeune fille avec des marguerites (A Young Girl with Daisies) 1889 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 54 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York “I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style,…

Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey (c.1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 54 cm National Gallery, London This picture shows the view across Moulin Huet Bay on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Renoir seems to have recreated the…

Les toits du Vieux Nice (c.1911-1919)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les toits du Vieux Nice (The Roofs of Old Nice) c.1911–1919 Oil on canvas Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer The old town seen from Renoir‘s house. See also: • Nice (France)

Femme nue couchée (1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme nue couchée (Reclining Nude) 1883 Oil on canvas, 65.1 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Nudes and the grand tradition of classical art preoccupied Renoir in the 1880s. In this painting, he paid…

Femme assise au bord de la mer (1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Femme assise au bord de la mer (By the Seashore) 1883 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 72.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir likely painted this work in his studio, posing his model in a…