Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir, who painted thousands of paintings, is known for depictions of children, voluptuous women, flowers and peasant scenes. The rheumatism that caused his fingers to curl in the …
Two Sisters - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Two Sisters - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the most Literal sense this composition derives from the traditional devices that often served as a point of departure for Renoir's basic …
In the Meadow - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
In the Meadow - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. At this time, Renoir was emerging from his periode aigre. He returned temporarily to Impressionism, but it was to an Impressionism wholly …
La Grenouillere - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Auguste Renoir's La Grenouillère (The Frog Pond), has all these ingredients - a sketch-like painting, which to contemporaries seemed unfinished, no carved-out details, a glitter of sun …
Madame Charpentier and Her Children - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Madame Charpentier and Her Children - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. A brilliant and attractive woman, with great influence in the world of letters, art, and politics, Madame Charpentier …
The Skiff - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Renoir was too much in love with people and with nature to be "only an eye" for very long. He worked as an Impressionist when the occasion suggested it, and he became one of the …
Pont Neuf - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pont Neuf - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In this masterpiece of the painting of Light, we have the happiest qualities of a bright summer day in Paris. How wonderfully Renoir has caught the …
Luncheon of the Boating Party - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Luncheon of the Boating Party - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Not since the Venetian painters of the High Renaissance has the world seen such glowing opulence in painting. But whereas the …
La loge - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
La loge - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir "Beauty," said Stendhal, "is the promise of happiness." To Renoir, a simpler man, the words are synonymous: beauty is happiness. The promise and the …
Oarsmen at Chatou - by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
In this canvas, Oarsmen at Chatou, Renoir has returned to one of his favorite spots along the Seine to explore again the beauties of the glinting water. True to Impressionist practice, the …