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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…

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…

Paysage aux Collettes (1914)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Paysage aux Collettes (Landscape at Les Collettes) 1914 Oil on canvas Musée Renoir, Cagnes-sur-Mer See also: • Les Collettes (Cagnes-sur-Mer)

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…

Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (1668)

Lairesse, Gérard de (1641-1711) Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas (Venus schenkt wapens aan Aeneas) 1668 Oil on canvas, 161.8 x 165.8 cm Museum Mayer van den Bergh, Antwerp In the 17th century, classicism broke through, also in golden Holland. Artists…

Point Lobos, Carmel (1914)

Hassam, Childe (1859-1935) Point Lobos, Carmel 1914 Oil on canvas, 71.91 x 91.92 cm Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LA California scenes by Hassam are not common; references suggest that there may not be more than a dozen. Hassam began…