World Paintings

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Head of Dog, 1870, oil on canvas, National Art Gallery of Washington, USA.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Julie Manet, 1894, oil on canvas, 55 × 46 cm, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris. 

Julie Manet was a French painter and art collector.  Born in Paris, she was the daughter and only child of artist Berthe Morisot and Eugene Manet, younger brother of painter Édouard Manet. Throughout her life Julie posed frequently for her mother and other Impressionist artists, including Renoir and her uncle Édouard.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenburg), 1879, oil on canvas, 131.5 x 99.5 cm, the Art Institute of Chicago. 

Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando marked Renoir’s return to the Impressionist fold. After withholding his works from the Impressionist exhibitions since the third exhibition of 1877, Renoir submitted 27 works to the seventh exhibition. In the painting Renoir presents a sentimental anecdote as well as a subject from modern life. The girls have been identified as Francesca and Angelina Wartenberg, who juggled and performed gymnastics in their father’s circus.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Woman Tying her Shoes, c. 1918, oil on canvas, 50.5 cm x 56.5 cm, The Courtauld Gallery, London.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir 

Nude Fixing her Hair, 1885, oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, USA. 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Woman with a Fan, 1875.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The Piano Lesson, 1889, oil on canvas, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, USA.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Mlle. Irène Cahen d’Anvers, 1880, oil on canvas, Sammlung E.G. Bührle, Zurich, Switzerland.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary, 1877, oil on canvas, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.

In 1877 Renoir met the actress Jeanne Samary. Art critics wrote she was a very important person in the life of the artist. He created three portraits of Samary and they are among the best works of Renoir, each of them different from one another in composition, color and size.

Renoir worked on this portrait of the actress with a great dedication, expressing emotion and the excitement. He admired the beauty of Jeanne. She loved the portrait and kept it in her appartment near La Place Pigalle where the 20 year old celebtrity lived with her parents.