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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 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…

Eugène Murer (1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Eugène Murer (Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier) 1877 Oil on canvas, 47 x 39.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Murer was an artist, celebrated pastry cook, restaurateur, novelist, poet, and avid collector of Impressionist paintings. By 1887, ten…

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,…

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…

La modiste (1877)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La modiste (The Milliner) 1877 Pastel on paper, 53.3 x 41.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir’s slice-of-life street scene provides just enough detail to allow us to identify his young model as an apprentice…

Dans la prairie (1888-1892)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Dans la prairie (In the Meadow) 1888–1892 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Between 1888 and 1892 Renoir painted a number of works in which the same pair of girls—the…