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Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)
Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)
France · Impressionism · 1875 · Oil on canvas
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1876 · Musée d'Orsay
A Sunday afternoon at the Montmartre dance hall, sunlight filtering through acacia leaves onto the dancers in dapples Renoir invented a new vocabulary of color to paint. His friends posed for it over several months.
Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)
Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)
France · Impressionism · 1879 · Oil on canvas
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1881 · The Phillips Collection
Renoir's friends — among them his future wife Aline, caressing a little dog — laze on a restaurant terrace overlooking the Seine. It is impressionism at its most convivial: no protest, no weather, just a warm afternoon extended indefinitely.
Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)
Laundress and Her Child (Aline and Pierre)
France, 19th century · c. 1886 · pastel on brown paper
Lucie Berard (Child in White)
Lucie Berard (Child in White)
France · Impressionism · 1883 · Oil on canvas
Studies of Pierre Renoir; His Mother, Aline Charigot; Nudes; and Landscape
Studies of Pierre Renoir; His Mother, Aline Charigot; Nudes; and Landscape
France · Impressionism · 1885–1886 · Oil on canvas
Claude Renoir, the Head Lowered (Claude Renoir, la tête baissée)
Claude Renoir, the Head Lowered (Claude Renoir, la tête baissée)
France · c. 1904 · lithograph
Bust of a Young Girl (Mlle. Dieterle)
Bust of a Young Girl (Mlle. Dieterle)
France, 19th century · 1899 · lithograph
Children Playing Ball
Children Playing Ball
France, late 19th-early 20th Century · 1900 · lithograph
Baigneuse assise
Baigneuse assise
France, late 19th-early 20th Century · c. 1905 · softground etching
Claude Renoir, Turned to the Left
Claude Renoir, Turned to the Left
France, late 19th-early 20th century · 1904 · lithograph
Claude Renoir, la tête baissée
Claude Renoir, la tête baissée
France, late 19th-early 20th Century · 1904 · lithograph
Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
Young Woman Arranging Her Earring
France, 20th century · 1905 · oil on fabric
Profile of a Young Woman
Profile of a Young Woman
France, late 19th-early 20th Century · c. 1910 · red chalk
Claude Renoir, de trois-quarts à droite
Claude Renoir, de trois-quarts à droite
France, late 19th-early 20th Century · 1908 · softground etching
Claude Renoir, de trois-quarts à gauche
Claude Renoir, de trois-quarts à gauche
France, late 19th-early 20th Century · 1908 · softground etching
Claude Renoir, the Artist's Son, in Profile
Claude Renoir, the Artist's Son, in Profile
France, late 19th-early 20th century · 1908 · etching