Monday 15 June 2015

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - part 4


Self-Portrait c1875
 oil on canvas 39.1 x 31.7 cm 
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

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, France, in 1919.


For earlier works see part 1 - 3 also. This is part 4 of a 30-part series on the works of Renoir:


1875c Path Through the High Grass 
oil on canvas 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1876-77 Rising Path in the Tall Grass 
oil on canvas 60 x 74 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1875c Snowy Landscape 
oil on canvas 51 x 66 cm 
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris

1875c The Garden
 oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1875c Woman with a Cat 
oil on canvas 56 x 46.4 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1876 A Girl with a Watering Can 
oil on canvas 100 x 73 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1876 Alfred Sisley 
oil on canvas 66.2 x 54.8 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1876 At Renoir's Home, Rue St-Georges 
oil on canvas 46 x 38.1 cm 
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

1876 Conversation in a Rose Garden 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Dance at The Moulin de la Galette 
oil on canvas 131.5 x 176.5 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1876 Garden in the Rue Cortot at Montmartre 
oil on canvas 
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

1876 Jeanne Durand-Ruel 
oil on canvas 74 x 113 cm 
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

1876 Madame Alphonse Daudet 
oil on canvas 46.2 x 38 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1876 Madame Chocquet Reading 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Madame Henriot 
oil on canvas 41 x 32.7 cm
 Private Collection

1876 Madame Henriot 
oil on canvas 66 x 50 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1876 Margot 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Mlle Georgette Charpentier Seated 
oil on canvas 97.8 x 70.8 cm 
Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo

1876 Model from the Moulin de la Galette 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Nini in the Garden ( Nini Lopez ) 
oil on canvas 61.9 x 50.8 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1876 Nini Lopez 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Nude Seated on a Sofa 
oil on canvas 
Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

1876 Portrait of a Young Woman 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Portrait of Madame Edmond Renoir 
oil on canvas 40.6 x 32.5 cm 
Private Collection

1876 Portraits of Marie-Sophie Chocquet 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 Roses in a Vase 
oil on canvas 60.7 x 54.4 cm 
Private Collection

1876 The First Step 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876 The Seine at Champrosay 
oil on canvas 54.6 x 66 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1876 The Swing 
oil on canvas 92 x 73 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1876 Young Woman at the Piano 
oil on canvas 93 x 74 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1876 Young Woman Braiding Her Hair 
oil on canvas 55.5 c 46 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1876 Young Woman with a Dog 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876-77 At the Theatre 
oil on canvas 65 x 49.5 cm 
The National Gallery, London

1876-77 Bouquet in front of a Mirror 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876-77 Portrait of Madame Georges Charpeitier 
oil on canvas 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1876-77c Young Woman Seated 
oil on canvas 66 x 55.5 cm 
The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, Birmingham, UK

1876-80c Chrysanthemums 
oil on canvas 65.4 x 54 cm
 Private Collection

1876c Child with an Apple 
oil on canvas 40.5 x 32.3 cm 
Private Collection

1876c Head of a Woman 
oil on canvas 38.5 x 36 cm 
The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

1876c Lady in a Black Dress 
oil on canvas 65.5 x 55.5 cm 
The State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1876c Man on a Stair 
oil on canvas 167.5 x 65.3 cm 
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

1876c Woman on a Stair 
oil on canvas 167.5 x 65.3 cm 
State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

1876c Nude Sitting in the Forest 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876c Path Through the High Grass 
oil on canvas 1876c 
Private Collection

1876c Roses in a China Vase 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1876c Tama, the Japanese Dog 
oil on canvas 38.3 x 46.2 cm 
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA

1876c The Conversation 
pastel and charcoal on paper 60.1 x 48.4 cm 
Private Collection

1876c Under the Arbor at the Moulin de la Galette 
oil on canvas 
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1876c Young Woman with a Japanese Umbrella
 oil on canvas
 Private Collection

1877 At the Café 
oil on canvas 39.3 x 343 cm
 Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1877 At the Café 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1877 Canoeing 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1877 Eugène Murer:

Murer was an artist, celebrated pastry cook, restaurateur, novelist, poet, and avid collector of Impressionist paintings. By 1887, ten years after he sat for this portrait, he had amassed some 122 works by his painter friends, including 15 by Renoir, whom he called "the greatest artist of our century." 
It has been suggested that Murer's pose and gaze in this work served as a model for Van Gogh's famous portrait of another great Impresionist collector, Dr. Paul-Ferdinand Gachet, Murer's neighbour in Auvers.

1877 Eugène Murer ( Hyacinthe-Eugène Meunier ) 
oil on canvas 47 x 39.4 cm 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Vincent van Gogh 1880 Portrait of Dr. Gachet 
oil on canvas 67 x 56 cm 
Private Collection

1877 Georges Rivière 
oil on cement 36.8 x 29.3 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1877 Jeanne Samary 
oil on canvas 46 x 56 cm 
Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow

1877 Jeanne Samary 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1877 Leaving the Conservatoire 
oil on canvas 117.5 x 187.3 cm 
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA


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