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The Grands Boulevards (French: Les Grands Boulevards) is an oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1875. The painting illustrates a busy Paris boulevard, showing the effects of industrialisation and Haussmannisation. The image is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is considered Renoir's most famous view of Paris.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, in 1841. His father, Léonard Renoir, was a tailor of modest means, so, in 1844, Renoir's family moved to Paris in search of more favorable prospects. The location of their home, in rue d'Argenteuil in central Paris, placed Renoir in proximity to the Louvre. Although the young ...
La Loge ('The Theatre Box') is an 1874 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is part of the collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. [1] The painting depicts a young couple in a box at the Paris theatre. The woman was modeled by Nini Lopez, Renoir's new model who would feature in fourteen of his paintings over the next few years.
Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (French: Les patineurs à Longchamp) is an oil-on-canvas landscape painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created during the winter of 1868. The painting depicts a snowscape with many Parisians, young and old, spending leisure time on a frozen park lake.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir: 1876 May 17, 1990: 2 Betsey Whitney: Ryoei Saito [note 9] Sotheby's, New York $175 $140.8 (¥931.5) Twelve Landscape Screens: Qi Baishi: 1925 December 17, 2017: Beijing Poly Auction [54] $168 $104.2 Garçon à la pipe: Pablo Picasso: 1905 May 5, 2004: 3 Greentree Foundation (Whitney family) Guido Barilla (suspected) [55 ...
At the Theatre (La Première Sortie), also known as The First Outing, is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, created around 1876–1877. It was acquired by the National Gallery in 1923. It shows two beautiful young women in what appears to be an opera box, looking down into the audience in the box below them.
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List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir; The Improvised Field Hospital, 1865 painting by Frédéric Bazille; A Studio at Les Batignolles, 1870 painting by Henri Fantin-Latour; Claude Monet Painting in his Studio, 1874 painting by Édouard Manet; Portrait of the painter Claude Monet, 1875 painting by Renoir