Tag: Renoir

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…

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,…

Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey (c.1883)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Moulin Huet Bay, Guernesey c.1883 Oil on canvas, 29.2 x 54 cm National Gallery, London This picture shows the view across Moulin Huet Bay on Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands. Renoir seems to have recreated the…

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…

Colonna Romano (1912)

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Colonna Romano 1912 Oil on canvas, 50 x 45 cm Musée des Beaux-Arts de Limoges, Limoges See also: • Colonna-Romano, Gabrielle (1888-1981)