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| Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1861 |
An innovative artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. He started out as an apprentice to a porcelain painter and studied drawing in his free time. After years as a struggling painter, Renoir helped launch an artistic movement called Impressionism in the 1870s. He eventually became one of the most highly regarded artists of his time. He died in Cagnes-sur-Mer, Franve, in 1919.
This is part 1 of a 30-part series on the works of Renoir:
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| 1857 Vase of Flowers graphite on greyish off-white wove paper 17.3 x 10.3 cm Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
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| 1858 Bouquet of Flowers oil on canvas 60.2 x 50.2 cm Private Collection |
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| 1858c Crown of Roses oil on canvas 61 x 50.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1860 The Artist's Mother oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1860c Reclining Nude oil on canvas 37.8 x 50.5 cm Private Collection |
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| 1861-70 Seated Woman oil on canvas 55.2 x 46.5 cm Manchester Art Gallery, UK |
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| 1862 The Return of the Boating Party oil on canvas 50.8 x 61.6 cm Private Collection |
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| 1862c Sleeping Cat oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1864 Arum and Conservatory Plants oil on canvas Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland |
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| 1864 Portrait of the Painter Emile-Henri Laport oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm Private Collection |
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| 1864 Romaine Lacaux oil on canvas 81.3 x 65 cm The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| 1864 William Sisley oil on canvas 81.5 x 65.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1865 Clearing in the Woods oil on canvas 75.3 x 101.9 cm Detroit Institute of the Arts, Michigan |
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| 1865 Mademoiselle Sicot oil on canvas 116 xx 89.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1865 Portrait of Colonel Howard Jenks oil on canvas 74.3 x 60.4 cm Private Collection |
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| 1865-66 Two Figures in a Landscape oil on canvas 33 x 24.1 cm Private Collection |
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| 1865-70c Apples and Walnuts oil on canvas 13.3 x 20.3 cm Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK |
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| 1866 Flowers in a Vase oil on canvas 81.3 x 65.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1866 In St Cloud Park oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1866 Lise Sewing oil on canvas 55.9 x 45.7 cm Dallas Museum of Art, Texas |
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| 1866 Madame Joseph Le Coeur oil on canvas 116 x 89.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1866 Spring Bouquet oil on canvas 104.8 x 80.3 cm Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston, MA |
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| 1866 The Fairies Pond oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1866 The Inn of Mother Anthony oil on canvas Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| 1866 The Painter Jules Le Coeur Walking his Dogs in the Forest of Fontainebleau oil on canvas Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Brazil |
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| 1866 Woman by a Fence oil on canvas 25 x 161 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1866 Woman in a Park oil on canvas 26.1 x 16.1 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1866 Woman Standing by a Tree oil on canvas 25.2 x 15.9 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1866 Young Woman Seated in the Countryside (Lise Tréhot) oil on canvas 24.5 x 14 cm Private Collection |
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| 1866c Lise in a Straw Hat oil on canvas 47 x 38.4 cm The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA image © 2015 The Barnes Foundation |
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| 1867 Diana oil on canvas 199.5 x 129.5 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1867 Frédéric Bazille oil on canvas 105 x 73.5 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
In this portrait of Bazille he is working on this painting:
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| Frédéric Bazille 1867 Still Life with Heron oil on canvas 100 x 79 cm Musée Fabre, Montpelier, France |
Alfred Sisley's painting of the same subject:
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| Alfred Sisley 1867 Still Life: Heron with Spread Wings oil on canvas 97 x 79 cm |
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| 1867 Portrait of Lise with Parasol oil on canvas 184 x 115 cm Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany |
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| 1867 The Champs-Elysees during the Paris Fair of 1867 oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1867-68 Pont des Arts, Paris oil on canvas 60.9 x 100.3 cm Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA |
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| 1868 Alfred Sisley with his Wife oil on canvas Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany |
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| 1868 Barges on the Seine oil on canvas 47 x 64 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1868 Boy with a Cat oil on canvas 123 x 66 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1868 Madame Darras oil on canvas 48 x 40 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1868 Portrait of Alfred Sisley oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm Sammlung E. G. Bührle, Zurich |
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| 1868 Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1868 The Clown oil on canvas Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands |
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| 1868 The Gypsy (aka In Summer) oil on canvas 85 x 59 cm Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| 1868 Woman in a Garden oil on canvas Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland |
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| 1868c Landscape, Snow Effect oil on canvas 48.5 x 64.8 cm Private Collection |
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| 1869 La Grenouillere oil on canvas 65.1 x 92 cm Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterhur, Switzerland |
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| 1869 La Grenouillère oil on canvas 66.5 x 81 cm Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| 1869 La Grenouillere oil on canvas 80 x 59 cm Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow |
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| 1869 Léonard Renoir, the Artist's Father oil on canvas 62.2 x 47 cm Saint Louis Art Museum, MO |
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| 1869 Madame Théodore Charpentier oil on canvas 46.5 x 39 cm Musée d'Orsay, Paris |
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| 1869 Woman in a Lace Blouse oil on canvas 81.5 x 65.5 cm Portland Museum of Art, Maine |
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| 1869c Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA |
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| 1870 A Nymph by a Stream oil on canvas 67 x 123 cm National Gallery, London |
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| 1870 A Walk in the Woods (aka Madame Lecour and her Children) oil on canvas Private Collection |
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| 1870 Head of a Dog oil on canvas 21.9 x 20 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| 1870 La Promenade oil on canvas 81.3 x 64.8 cm J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1870 Madame Stora in Algerian Dress oil on canvas California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, CA |