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• 1876 · National Gallery of Art A Girl with a Watering Can In 1876, Renoir was deep in the most concentrated Impressionist phase of his career, working alongside Monet on riverside and garden subjects and pushing… Read the painting story
• 1869-1870 A Nymph by a Stream Before Renoir became known for sunlit gardens and rosy-cheeked children, he was a young painter working through the example of Gustave Courbet. A Nymph… Read the painting story
• 1910 · Barnes Foundation After the Bath (La Sortie du bain) By 1910 Renoir's hands were badly deformed by rheumatoid arthritis, and he worked from a wheelchair at his house at Cagnes-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean… Read the painting story
• 1876 At the Theatre (La Première Sortie) In the mid-1870s Renoir was a regular visitor to the theatres of Paris. He was drawn less by the plays themselves than by the… Read the painting story
• 1876 · Musee d'Orsay Bal du moulin de la Galette In the spring of 1876, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was living in Montmartre, then still a semi-rural quarter of Paris dotted with windmills, vegetable gardens and… Read the painting story
• 1870 Bather with a Griffon Dog In 1870, Renoir was still several years from the exhibitions that would define Impressionism, and he was working hard to establish himself through the… Read the painting story
• 1915-1917 Blonde Girl with a Rose By 1915, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was seventy-four and living mostly at Les Collettes, his house among the olive groves of Cagnes-sur-Mer. Rheumatoid arthritis had twisted… Read the painting story
• 1883 · Metropolitan Museum of Art By the Seashore In September 1883 Renoir travelled to Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, and spent several weeks painting its coves, cliffs and bathers. The trip gave… Read the painting story
• 1875 · Musee d'Orsay Claude Monet In the mid-1870s Renoir often travelled out to Argenteuil, on the Seine northwest of Paris, to paint alongside his friend Claude Monet, who had… Read the painting story
• 1909 Claude Renoir as a Clown In 1909 Renoir was living at Les Collettes, the farmhouse and olive grove he had bought a couple of years earlier above Cagnes-sur-Mer in… Read the painting story
• 1883 · Museum of Fine Arts Boston Dance at Bougival By 1883 Renoir was in his early forties and increasingly uneasy with the loose, broken brushwork that had defined Impressionism through the 1870s. He… Read the painting story
• 1883 · Musee d'Orsay Dance in the City By 1883, Renoir had grown uneasy with the loose, broken brushwork that had defined his painting through the 1870s. A recent trip to Italy,… Read the painting story
• 1883 · Musee d'Orsay Dance in the Country Renoir painted Dance in the Country in 1883 as the warm, informal counterpart to Dance in the City, a picture he conceived at the… Read the painting story
• 1867 · National Gallery of Art Diana In 1867, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was twenty-six, still years away from the loose, sunlit style that would make him famous, and trying, like every ambitious… Read the painting story
• 1877 · Metropolitan Museum of Art Eugène Murer In 1877, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was thirty-six and showing his work at the third Impressionist group exhibition, a display that still drew ridicule from most… Read the painting story
• 1911 · Musee d'Orsay Gabrielle à la rose By 1911, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was around seventy and working mainly from his house at Cagnes-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast, increasingly limited by rheumatoid arthritis… Read the painting story
• 1895-1896 Gabrielle and Jean By 1895, Renoir's family life had settled into the pattern that would occupy much of his later painting: his wife Aline, their young son… Read the painting story
• 1907 Gabrielle with Open Blouse By 1907 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was well into his sixties, his hands increasingly stiffened by rheumatoid arthritis, and his working life had settled into a… Read the painting story
• 1885 Girl with a Fan By 1885 Renoir was deep into what he later called his crisis with Impressionism, a period in which he pulled back from the broken… Read the painting story
• 1892 · Musee d'Orsay Girls at the Piano By 1892 Renoir's reputation had recovered from the harsh self-doubt of the mid-1880s, when he had grown dissatisfied with Impressionist technique and pushed himself… Read the painting story
• 1885 In the Garden In March 1885 Renoir's first son, Pierre, was born to Aline Charigot, the young seamstress who had been his companion and frequent model since… Read the painting story
• 1868 In the Summer In 1868 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was twenty-seven, sharing a cramped Paris studio with his friend Frédéric Bazille and scraping by on portrait commissions. He had… Read the painting story
• 1913 Judgement of Paris By 1913 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was working from a wheelchair at Les Collettes, his farmhouse above Cagnes-sur-Mer, his hands so deformed by rheumatoid arthritis that… Read the painting story
• 1876 · Musee d'Orsay La Balançoire Renoir painted La Balançoire in 1876, working in the garden behind the house he had rented on the rue Cortot in Montmartre, the same… Read the painting story
• 1874 · Courtauld Gallery La Loge In the early months of 1874, Renoir was thirty-two years old and working in Paris among a loose band of painters whom the official… Read the painting story
• 1874 La Parisienne In the spring of 1874, Renoir joined Monet, Degas, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot and others in mounting an independent exhibition of their own work, after… Read the painting story
• 1870 La Promenade In 1870 Renoir was twenty-nine, still years away from wide recognition, and dividing his time between Paris and the countryside around Fontainebleau and Louveciennes,… Read the painting story
• 1872 · National Gallery of Art Le Pont Neuf In the summer of 1872, Renoir wanted to paint the Pont Neuf, the oldest bridge across the Seine in Paris, thronged as it always… Read the painting story
• 1867 Lise with a Parasol In the summer of 1867 Renoir was twenty-six and still largely unknown, working in and around the forest of Fontainebleau with a small circle… Read the painting story
• 1875 · Art Institute of Chicago Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise In the mid-1870s Renoir spent long stretches of the warmer months at Chatou, a small town on the Seine a short train ride west… Read the painting story
• 1880-1881 · Phillips Collection Luncheon of the Boating Party In the summer of 1880, Renoir was spending time at Chatou, a village on the Seine west of Paris popular with rowers, boaters and… Read the painting story
• 1878 · Metropolitan Museum of Art Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children By 1878, Renoir had found an important patron in Georges Charpentier, the publisher of novelists including Emile Zola and Gustave Flaubert, and in his… Read the painting story
• 1860s Marriage of Sisley In the early 1860s, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of a handful of young painters training in the Paris studio of Charles Gleyre, where strict… Read the painting story
• 1880 Mlle Irene Cahen d’Anvers By 1880 Renoir had spent more than a decade painting alongside Monet and the other Impressionists, exhibiting in their group shows while still struggling… Read the painting story
• 1875-1876 Mother and Children By 1875 Pierre-Auguste Renoir had settled into the rhythms of Impressionist Paris. He was painting alongside Monet, Sisley and Pissarro, and had shown his… Read the painting story
• 1866 Mother Anthony’s Tavern In the mid-1860s, Renoir often left Paris for the village of Marlotte, on the edge of the Forest of Fontainebleau, where a modest inn… Read the painting story
• 1910 Nude By 1910 Renoir's rheumatoid arthritis had progressed to the point where holding a brush for long stretches caused him real difficulty, yet this was… Read the painting story
• 1876 Nude Woman, Anna By the mid-1870s Renoir had made his name largely through scenes of Parisian leisure: dance halls, boating parties and river bathers. In 1876, the… Read the painting story
• 1872 Parisian Women in Algerian Costume In 1872 Renoir was thirty-one years old and still working to establish himself in Paris, a city where recognition still meant one thing above… Read the painting story
• 1918 Portrait of Adèle Besson By 1918 Renoir was seventy-seven and had been living for over a decade at Les Collettes, his house among the olive groves above Cagnes-sur-Mer… Read the painting story
• 1899-1906 Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf By 1900 Ambroise Vollard was already one of the most consequential art dealers in Paris, a man whose small gallery on the Rue Laffitte… Read the painting story
• 1867 Portrait of Frédéric Bazille Painting In the mid-1860s, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Frédéric Bazille shared studio space in Paris, at a time when neither man could afford a studio alone.… Read the painting story
• 1878 Portrait of Jeanna Samary In 1878 Jeanne Samary was in her early twenties and already a rising star of the Comédie-Française, admired for the warmth and wit she… Read the painting story
• 1877 Portrait of Jeanne Samary In the spring of 1877, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was preparing work for the third group exhibition that he and his fellow Impressionists were mounting independently… Read the painting story
• 1876-1877 · Musée d'Orsay Portrait of Madame Charpentier: Gold Earrings and a Pale Collar Renoir's Portrait of Madame Charpentier brings the sitter close to the front of the canvas. Her head, shoulders and upper chest fill the image.… Read the painting story
• 1918 · Musee d'Orsay The Bathers (1918) By 1918 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was living at Les Collettes, his house among the olive groves of Cagnes-sur-Mer on the French Mediterranean coast, in the… Read the painting story
• 1877 The Cup of Chocolate By 1877 Renoir was exhibiting with the Impressionists for the third time. He was beginning to attract a small but useful circle of patrons… Read the painting story
• 1908-1914 · Metropolitan Museum of Art The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes In 1907 Renoir learned that the owner of a farm near Cagnes-sur-Mer, a property called Les Collettes, planned to cut down its ancient olive… Read the painting story
• 1875 · Philadelphia Museum of Art The Grands Boulevards By 1875 Renoir had exhibited with Monet, Degas, Pissarro, and their circle at the independent show of 1874 that critics had mockingly dubbed "Impressionist,"… Read the painting story
• 1884 · Philadelphia Museum of Art The Great Bathers Renoir began work on The Great Bathers in 1884, at a point when he had grown openly dissatisfied with the loose, spontaneous brushwork that… Read the painting story
• 1881-1886 · London's National Gallery The Umbrellas Renoir began The Umbrellas in 1881, at a moment when he had grown restless with the loose handling of paint that had defined his… Read the painting story
• 1881 · Art Institute of Chicago Two Sisters In the summer of 1881, Renoir was working along the Seine at Chatou, a town west of Paris where boating parties, riverside restaurants and… Read the painting story
• 1864 · Musee d'Orsay William Sisley In 1864 Pierre-Auguste Renoir was twenty-three years old and still a student, enrolled at the private Paris atelier of the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre,… Read the painting story
• 1876 Woman in Black In 1876, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was thirty-five years old and deep in the company of the painters who would soon be called the Impressionists. He… Read the painting story
• 1897 Woman Playing a Guitar In the summer of 1897 Renoir came off his bicycle near his house in Essoyes, the small village in Champagne where his wife Aline's… Read the painting story
• 1875 · National Gallery of Art Woman with a Cat Around 1875 Renoir was producing many of his most intimate, small-scale figure paintings, pictures made not for the Salon but for private sale and… Read the painting story
• 1871 Woman with Parrot Renoir painted Woman with a Parrot in 1871, the year Paris emerged from the Prussian siege and then from the violent weeks of the… Read the painting story
• 1880-1882 Young Girls in Black By 1880, Renoir stood at a turning point in his career. He had spent the previous six years exhibiting alongside Monet, Pissarro and Degas… Read the painting story
• 1888 Young Woman with a Blue Choker By 1888 Renoir had spent several years working his way out of what he later called a crisis in his art. A trip to… Read the painting story
• 1897 Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano By the late 1890s Renoir had moved well past the financial hardship of his early Impressionist years and was increasingly welcomed into the homes… Read the painting story