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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,…

La ferme des Collettes, Cagnes (1908-1914)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) La ferme des Collettes, Cagnes (The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes) c.1908–1914 Oil on canvas, 54.6 x 65.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York In 1907, Renoir purchased the estate of Les Collettes at Cagnes on…

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…

Nature morte avec pêches et raisins (1881)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte avec pêches et raisins (Still Life with Peaches and Grapes) 1881 Oil on canvas, 54 x 65.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Renoir spent part of the summer of 1881 at the country home…

Baigneuse assise (1892)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse assise (Young Girl Bathing) 1892 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Pierre Auguste Renoir painted a great many canvases of single bathers in outdoor settings, timeless studies of fulsome…

Nature morte aux pêches (1881)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte aux pêches (Still Life with Peaches) 1881 Oil on canvas, 53.3 x 64.8 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Reviewers of the 1882 Impressionist exhibition were dazzled by this “very appealing” still life of…

Jeune fille au chapeau (c.1891)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Jeune fille au chapeau (Young Girl in a Pink-and-Black Hat) c.1891 Oil on canvas, 40.6 x 32.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This is one of many paintings that Renoir made in the 1890s of…

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…