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Pierre Renoir French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841?CDecember 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.
His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugene Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher.
A fine example of Renoir's early work, and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism, is Diana, 1867. Ostensibly a mythological subject, the painting is a naturalistic studio work, the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled, and superimposed upon a contrived landscape. If the work is still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tr??hot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings.
In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouill??re, 1869).
One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette). The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people, at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre, close to where he lived.
On the Terrace, oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of ChicagoThe works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid 1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884-87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism. This is sometimes called his "Ingres period", as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures.
After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to the use of thinly brushed color which dissolved outlines as in his earlier work. From this period onward he concentrated especially on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are Girls at the Piano, 1892, and Grandes Baigneuses, 1918-19. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes.
A prolific artist, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently-reproduced works in the history of art.. |
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Pierre Renoir Young Girl with Daisies 1889
Oil on canvas 65.1 x 54 cm
New York The Metropolitan Museum of Art Mr and Mrs Henry Ittleson Jr Fund (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir The Braid(suzanne Vdaladon) 1884-1886
Oil on canvas 56 x 47 cm
Seitzerland Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Rocky Crags at L'Estaque 1882
Oil on canvas 66.5 x 81 cm
Boston Massachuserts Museum of Fine Arts Juliana Cheney Edwards Collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Girl in a Boat oil on canvas 73 x 92.4 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir At the Moulin de la Galette c 1875
Pastel 47 x 61 cm
Belgrade Serbian Republic Narodni Muzej (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Young Girl in a White Hat 1891
Oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Aline Charigot(Madame Renoir) 1885
Oil on canvas 65.4 x 54 cm
Philadlphia Pennsylvania Philadelphia Museum of Art THe W P Wilstach Collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Self-Portrait 1910
Oil on canvas 42 x 33 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Child with a Whip 1885
Oil on canvas 107 x 75 cm
St Petersburg Russia The State Hermitage Museum (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Girl with Parasol (Aline Nunes) 1883
Oil on canvas 130 x 79 cm
Paris Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Maternity-Baby at the Breast(Aline and her son Pierre) first version 1886
Sanguine 81 x 65 cm
Paris Musee d'Orsay (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Portrait of Delphine Legrand 1875
Oil on canvas 31 3/4 x 23 1/2 in(81 x 60 cm)
Philadelphia MUseum of Art Mcllhenny Collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Woman with a Parasol and Small Child on a Sunlit Hillside c 1874-1876
Oil on canvas 47 x 56.2 cm
Boston Massachusetts Museum of Fine Arts bequest of John T Spaulding (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Mademoiselle Sicot 1865
Oil on canvas 116 x 89.5 cm
Washington D C National Gallery of Art Chester Dale Collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Woman with a Parrot(Henriette Darras) 1871
Oil on canvas 92.1 x 65.1 cm
New york Solomon R Guggtenheim Museum Thannhauser Collection gift of Jestin K Thannhauser (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Return of a Boating Party 1862
Oil on canvas 50.8 x 61 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Boating Party at Chatou d 1879
317 x 391'' (In the foreground Gustave Caillebotte) National Gallery of Art Washington DC (Gift of Sam A Lewisohn) (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir The Fisherman 1874
Oil on canvas 54 x 64 cm
Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Terraces at Cagnes 1905
Oil on canvas 46 x 55.5 cm
Tokyo Private collection (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir Madame Hagen 1883
Oil on canvas 92.1 x 73 cm
Washington D C National Gallery of Art gift of Angelika Wertheim Frink (mk64)
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Pierre Renoir
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French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (February 25, 1841?CDecember 3, 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty, and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau".
Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions. The female nude was one of his primary subjects. In characteristic Impressionist style, Renoir suggested the details of a scene through freely brushed touches of color, so that his figures softly fuse with one another and their surroundings.
His initial paintings show the influence of the colorism of Eugene Delacroix and the luminosity of Camille Corot. He also admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color. As well, Renoir admired Edgar Degas' sense of movement. Another painter Renoir greatly admired was the 18th century master François Boucher.
A fine example of Renoir's early work, and evidence of the influence of Courbet's realism, is Diana, 1867. Ostensibly a mythological subject, the painting is a naturalistic studio work, the figure carefully observed, solidly modeled, and superimposed upon a contrived landscape. If the work is still a 'student' piece, already Renoir's heightened personal response to female sensuality is present. The model was Lise Tr??hot, then the artist's mistress and inspiration for a number of paintings.
In the late 1860s, through the practice of painting light and water en plein air (in the open air), he and his friend Claude Monet discovered that the color of shadows is not brown or black, but the reflected color of the objects surrounding them. Several pairs of paintings exist in which Renoir and Monet, working side-by-side, depicted the same scenes (La Grenouill??re, 1869).
One of the best known Impressionist works is Renoir's 1876 Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (Le Bal au Moulin de la Galette). The painting depicts an open-air scene, crowded with people, at a popular dance garden on the Butte Montmartre, close to where he lived.
On the Terrace, oil on canvas, 1881, Art Institute of ChicagoThe works of his early maturity were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By the mid 1880s, however, he had broken with the movement to apply a more disciplined, formal technique to portraits and figure paintings, particularly of women, such as The Bathers, which was created during 1884-87. It was a trip to Italy in 1881, when he saw works by Raphael and other Renaissance masters, that convinced him that he was on the wrong path, and for the next several years he painted in a more severe style, in an attempt to return to classicism. This is sometimes called his "Ingres period", as he concentrated on his drawing and emphasized the outlines of figures.
After 1890, however, he changed direction again, returning to the use of thinly brushed color which dissolved outlines as in his earlier work. From this period onward he concentrated especially on monumental nudes and domestic scenes, fine examples of which are Girls at the Piano, 1892, and Grandes Baigneuses, 1918-19. The latter painting is the most typical and successful of Renoir's late, abundantly fleshed nudes.
A prolific artist, he made several thousand paintings. The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently-reproduced works in the history of art..
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