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Artists›Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841–1919

PaintingImpressionism

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None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

111

Works in Collection

151

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Why this artist matters now

Pierre-Auguste Renoir pioneered Impressionism through intuitive color manipulation and loose, rapid brushwork that prioritized spontaneity and light over academic convention. His joyful landscapes and portraits, including Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette (1876), remain canonical in Western art; later he returned to classical methods, influencing 20th-century modernists including Picasso.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Art Institute of Chicago

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Artworks (111)

Water

1916 · Bronze

27.3 × 23.8 × 14 cm (10 3/4 × 9 3/8 × 5 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Seated Bather

1914 · Oil on canvas

81.1 × 67.2 cm (31 7/8 × 26 7/8 in.); Framed: 92.8 × 80.7 × 6.4 cm (36 1/2 × 31 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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The Judgment of Paris

1914 · bronze

Overall: 74.3 x 90.2 x 17.2 cm (29 1/4 x 35 1/2 x 6 3/4 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Tilla Durieux (Ottilie Godeffroy, 1880–1971)

1914 · Oil on canvas

36 1/4 x 29 in. (92.1 x 73.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Maternity, large plate

1907 · Lithograph from two stones in black and gray on gray chine

Image: 50.7 × 48.7 cm (20 × 19 3/16 in.); Sheet: 68.5 × 51.2 cm (27 × 20 3/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Reclining Nude

1906 · Etching in red-brown (sanguine) on cream Japanese paper

Image: 14 × 19.9 cm (5 9/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Plate: 14 × 19.9 cm (5 9/16 × 7 7/8 in.); Sheet: 19.8 × 26.7 cm (7 13/16 × 10 9/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Standing Bather

1905 · Etching on cream wove paper

Image: 16.8 × 11.2 cm (6 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.); Plate: 16.8 × 11.2 cm (6 5/8 × 4 7/16 in.); Sheet: 23.6 × 15.9 cm (9 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Standing Bather

1905 · Etching on tan laid paper

Image: 17.1 × 11.1 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/8 in.); Plate: 17.1 × 11.1 cm (6 3/4 × 4 3/8 in.); Sheet: 24.8 × 15.5 cm (9 13/16 × 6 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Cleveland Museum of Art

Bust of a Young Girl (Mlle. Dieterle) (1899)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Claude Renoir, Turned to the Left (1904)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland Museum of Art

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Art Institute of Chicago

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