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This is an incomplete list of paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). [1] [2] The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. [3]
The painter and art patron, Gustave Caillebotte, is seated in the lower right. Renoir's future wife, Aline Charigot, is in the foreground playing with a small dog, an affenpinscher; she replaced an earlier woman who sat for the painting but with whom Renoir became annoyed. [4] On the table is fruit and wine.
Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise, also known as The Rowers' Lunch, Déjeuner chez Fournaise, or Déjeuner au Restaurant Fournaise, is a 1875-1879 painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It portrays three people having lunch at the Maison Fournaise located on the Île des Impressionnistes in the River Seine at Chatou, west of Paris.
Pages in category "Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir" The following 40 pages are in this category, out of 40 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A Box at the Theater (At the Concert), 1880, Clark Art Institute, Williamstown 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.
Renoir painted a smaller version of the picture (78 × 114 cm) with the same title. The painting is now believed to be in a private collection in Switzerland. Apart from their size, the two paintings are virtually identical, although the smaller is painted in a more fluid manner than the d'Orsay version.