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…
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…
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Nature morte avec fleurs et figues de Barbarie (Still Life with Flowers and Prickly Pears) c.1885 Oil on canvas, 73.3 x 59.4 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This picture is closely related to Still Life:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Personnes sur la plage (Figures on the Beach) 1890 Oil on canvas, 52.7 x 64.1 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Probably painted in 1890 on the Cote d’Azur in southern France, this sun-filled painting shows…