Renoir Buying Guides
Renoir painted people. That single fact changes almost every decision you will make about buying one for your wall; where it hangs, how big it needs to be, how far away you stand, and which room it belongs in. A landscape can be admired from anywhere in the room. A face wants to be met at eye level.
There are four questions worth answering before you choose, and they are best answered in this order: what the piece should be made of, how large it needs to be for the figures to read, whether it should arrive framed, and which of Renoir’s very different moods suits the room you have in mind. These guides take each one in turn. None of them will push you toward the most expensive option.
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How to choose a Renoir reproduction. The whole decision in one place: hand-painted oil against archival canvas print, what each looks like from a metre away, and how to judge a reproduction of a painter whose whole subject is skin, fabric and light.
Renoir wall art by room. The dance halls, the boating parties, the theatre boxes, the bathers, the flower pieces, the southern landscapes. Each group carries a different temperature and a different amount of noise. This guide matches them to the room, the light and the wall colour you already have.
Large Renoir wall art. Renoir’s crowd scenes hold dozens of faces. Below a certain size those faces stop being people and become brushstrokes. Here is where that line falls, size by size.
Framing a Renoir. Rolled, stretched or framed, and which frame does justice to a palette built on rose, coral and gold without turning the wall into a pastiche.
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Buy the size that lets you see the faces from where you will actually stand, hang it so the principal face sits at eye level, and choose the subject by the light your room already has rather than by the painting’s fame. Everything else is preference, and preference is allowed to be yours.
- Framing a Renoir: Rolled, Stretched or Framed Rolled, stretched, or framed. The choice is mostly about what you want to do at the other end, and only then about looks. Read more
- Hand-Painted Oil or Canvas Print: What You Are Buying Both exist, both have their place, and the difference is not a matter of taste. This page sets out what each one actually is, so you… Read more
- How Our Renoir Reproductions Are Made Every canvas on this site is painted by hand, in oil, by a person. Nothing is printed, and nothing is machine made. This page explains what… Read more
- How to Choose a Renoir Reproduction Reproductions of Renoir are harder to judge than reproductions of a landscape painter, and the reason is simple: his subject is skin. The eye forgives an… Read more
- Large Renoir Wall Art: A Practical Sizing Guide With Renoir, size is not a matter of taste. It is a matter of whether the faces work. Read more
- Renoir Wall Art by Room: Which Painting Goes Where Renoir's catalogue is not one mood. Putting the wrong group in the wrong room is the most common mistake, and it has nothing to do with… Read more
- Size Guide: Measuring for a Renoir Canvas Almost every regret we hear about is the same one: the painting is too small. A canvas that looked generous on a screen arrives and reads… Read more