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La Promeneuse (1887)

Monet, Claude (1840-1926) La Promeneuse (The stroller, Suzanne Hoschedé) 1887 Oil on canvas, 100.6 x 70.5 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This painting of Suzanne Hoschedé in the meadows just south of Le Pressoir, Monet‘s home at Giverny,…

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…

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…

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…

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…