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Jeune femme au chat (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune femme au chat (Woman with a Cat) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 56 x 46.4 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington Shown from about the waist up, a young woman wearing white sits in an armchair cuddling a…

Une serveuse au restaurant Duval (c.1875)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Une serveuse au restaurant Duval (Waitress at Duval’s Restaurant) c.1875 Oil on canvas, 100.3 x 71.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The title Renoir conferred on this painting is untraced. By 1885 it was on…

Tilla Durieux (1914)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880-1971) 1914 Oil on canvas, 92.1 x 73.7 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In July 1914, just prior to the outbreak of World War I, the famous German actress Tilla Durieux…

Madame Édouard Bernier (1871)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Édouard Bernier 1871 Oil on canvas, 78.1 x 62.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Marie-Octavie Bernier was the wife of the commander of Renoir‘s regiment during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). In the spring of…

Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (1878)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Charpentier et ses enfants (Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children) 1878 Oil on canvas, 153.7 x 190.2 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In this commissioned portrait, as Marcel Proust observed, Renoir gave expression to…

Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (1888)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Les Filles de Catulle Mendès (Daughters of Catulle Mendès) 1888 Oil on canvas, 161.9 x 129.9 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Hoping to recapture the success he had achieved with Madame Georges Charpentier and Her…

The Woman taken in Adultery (1644)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) The Woman taken in Adultery 1644 Oil on oak, 83.8 x 65.4 cm National Gallery, London A woman kneels and weeps. Darkness like a great cavern surrounds her. A shaft of light picks her out on the stone…

Joseph Telling his Dreams (1633)

Rembrandt (1606-1669) Joseph Telling his Dreams to his Parents and Brothers 1633 Paper, 51 x 39 cm Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam Joseph tells his dreams to his parents and his brothers. Standing by a bed of his mother Rachel, Joseph tells his…