Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Self Portrait (1910) by Pierre Auguste Renoir, in a Private Collection (Photo by Renoir)
Self Portrait (1910) by Pierre Auguste Renoir, in a Private Collection
Self Portrait (1910) by Pierre Auguste Renoir, in a Private Collection, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo by Renoir)
Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Musée d
By the Water or Near the Lake (c. 1880) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Art Institute of Chicago, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago)
The Large Bathers (1884–87) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Philadelphia Museum of Art)
Young Girl with Her Hair (1894) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–81) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of The Phillips Collection)
Self Portrait (1876) by Pierre Auguste Renoir, in the Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Fogg Art Museum)
Young Girls at the Piano (1892) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Musée d
Self Portrait (1910) by Pierre Auguste Renoir, in a Private Collection, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo by Unknown)
On the Terrasse (1881) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Art Institute of Chicago, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Baigneuse assise s'essuyant une jambe (1914) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Musée de l'Orangerie, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Musée de l
Gabrielle Renard and infant son, Jean (1895–96) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in the Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo courtesy of the Musée de l
Photograph of Pierre-Auguste Renoir c. 1910, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, General (Photo by Dornac)

An Impressionist fond of apple-cheeked women and children

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was originally a porcelain painter, which helps explain his figures' ivory skin and chubby pink cheeks.

Though a founding member of the Impressionists, in a way he is also the last of the great Romantics, inheriting the focus on feminine beauty (particularly of the plump, Rubenesque variety) and elegance from the rococo era.

Selected works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in England


Ambroise Vollard (1908) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Courtauld Gallery, London

La loge (The Theater Box) (1874) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Courtauld Gallery, London

Where to find works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in England