Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baie de Naples au matin (The Bay of Naples) 1881 Oil on canvas, 59.7 x 81.3 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York The corner of the balcony visible at lower left in this composition indicates Renoir’s…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Pierre-Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81 x 64.1 cm Private collection Companion: Renoir, Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Fogg Museum, Cambridge See also: • Renoir, Pierre Henri (1832-1903)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Madame Pierre Henri Renoir 1870 Oil on canvas, 81.3 x 64.8 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA This is one of two pendant portraits that Renoir painted of his elder brother, Pierre Henri, and his wife, Blanche-Marie Blanc…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Portrait de Victor Chocquet c.1876 Oil on canvas, 46 × 36 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’, Winterthur See also: • Chocquet, Victor (1821-1891)
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Victor Chocquet c.1875 Oil on canvas, 53.02 x 43.5 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA An employee at the Ministry of Finance, Victor Chocquet (1821–1891) met Degas in 1875, and by the second impressionist exhibition, in 1876, had…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Baigneuse assise (Seated Bather) c.1883–1884 Oil on canvas, 119.7 x 93 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA Following a trip to Italy in 1881–82 to study the masterpieces of ancient Roman and Renaissance painting, Renoir embarked on one…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Bouquet printanier (Spring Bouquet) 1866 Oil on canvas, 104.8 x 80.3 cm Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA For many French artists during the 1860s, the floral still life persisted as a test of pure painterly ability. This exuberant…
Renoir, Pierre-Auguste (1841-1919) Vue de Bougival (View of Bougival) 1873 Oil on canvas, 49.53 x 57.15 cm Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee View of Bougival epitomizes the characteristics that would come to define Pierre Auguste Renoir’s special contributions to the Impressionist…