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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.
The canvas reveals his application of an ecru or biscuit-colored ground (primer), particularly evident in the lower right section, below the house on the horizon. [ 7 ] In diverging from the academic conventions of his predecessors, Renoir's depiction of wind here is not allegorical but rather a natural phenomenon, a visual effect integrated ...
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
Venus Victorious (French: Vénus victorieuse) or Venus Victrix is a c.1914 plaster sculpture of Venus by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, based on his image of the goddess in his painting The Judgement of Paris. [1] It shows her holding the golden apple she has just won by being judged the most beautiful of three goddesses by Paris.
Yvonne dresses in white and strives to play a piece on the piano while her sister Christine contemplates the score in an accomplice way. Although Renoir does not renounce capturing natural light and colour, he is particularly interested in the modelling and drawing of the figures, wrapped in an atmosphere that does not manage to dilute the contours like Claude Monet (1840–1926), the French ...
The Swing, by former resident Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicts the garden and was painted on site (1876). The Musée de Montmartre (French pronunciation: [myze də mɔ̃maʁtʁ], Montmartre Museum) is located in Montmartre, at 8-14 rue Cortot in the 18th (XVIII) arrondissement of Paris, France.