Pierre-Auguste Renoir - part 1

Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1861

An innovative artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France. He started out as an apprentice to a porcelain painter and studied drawing in his free time. After years as a struggling painter, Renoir helped launch an artistic movement called Impressionism in the 1870s. He eventually became one of the most highly regarded artists of his time. He died in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France, in 1919.

This is part 1 of a 30-part series on the works of Renoir:

1857 Vase of Flowers 
graphite on greyish off-white wove paper 17.3 x 10.3 cm 
Art Institute of Chicago, IL

1858 Bouquet of Flowers 
oil on canvas 60.2 x 50.2 cm 
Private Collection

1858c Crown of Roses 
oil on canvas 61 x 50.5 cm 
Private Collection

1860 The Artist's Mother 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1860c Reclining Nude 
oil on canvas 37.8 x 50.5 cm 
Private Collection

1861-70 Seated Woman 
oil on canvas 55.2 x 46.5 cm 
Manchester Art Gallery, UK

1862 The Return of the Boating Party 
oil on canvas 50.8 x 61.6 cm 
Private Collection

1862c Sleeping Cat 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1864 Arum and Conservatory Plants 
oil on canvas 
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterthur, Switzerland

1864 Portrait of the Painter Emile-Henri Laport 
oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm 
Private Collection

1864 Romaine Lacaux 
oil on canvas 81.3 x 65 cm 
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

1864 William Sisley 
oil on canvas 81.5 x 65.5 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1865 Clearing in the Woods 
oil on canvas 75.3 x 101.9 cm 
Detroit Institute of the Arts, Michigan

1865 Mademoiselle Sicot 
oil on canvas 116 xx 89.5 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1865 Portrait of Colonel Howard Jenks 
oil on canvas 74.3 x 60.4 cm
 Private Collection

1865-66 Two Figures in a Landscape 
oil on canvas 33 x 24.1 cm
 Private Collection

1865-70c Apples and Walnuts 
oil on canvas 13.3 x 20.3 cm 
Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge, UK

1866 Flowers in a Vase 
oil on canvas 81.3 x 65.1 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1866 In St. Cloud Park 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1866 Lise Sewing 
oil on canvas 55.9 x 45.7 cm 
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas

1866 Madame Joseph Le Coeur 
oil on canvas 116 x 89.5 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1866 Spring Bouquet 
oil on canvas 104.8 x 80.3 cm 
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Boston, MA

1866 The Fairies Pond 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1866 The Inn of Mother Anthony 
oil on canvas 
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

1866 The Painter Jules Le Coeur Walking his Dogs in the Forest of Fontainebleau 
oil on canvas 
Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand, Brazil

1866 Woman by a Fence 
oil on canvas 25 x 161 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1866 Woman in a Park 
oil on canvas 26.1 x 16.1 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1866 Woman Standing by a Tree 
oil on canvas 25.2 x 15.9 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1866 Young Woman Seated in the Countryside ( Lise Tréhot ) 
oil on canvas 24.5 x 14 cm 
Private Collection

1866c Lise in a Straw Hat 
oil on canvas 47 x 38.4 cm 
The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA 
image © 2015 The Barnes Foundation

1867 Diana 
oil on canvas 199.5 x 129.5 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1867 Frédéric Bazille 
oil on canvas 105 x 73.5 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Note: In this portrait of Bazille, he is working on this painting:

Frédéric Bazille 1867 Still Life with Heron 
oil on canvas 100 x 79 cm 
Musée Fabre, Montpelier, France

Alfred Sisley's painting of the same subject:

Alfred Sisley 1867 Still Life: Heron with Spread Wings 
oil on canvas 97 x 79 cm

1867 Portrait of Lise with Parasol 
oil on canvas 184 x 115 cm 
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

1867 The Champs-Elysees during the Paris Fair of 1867 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1867-68 Pont des Arts, Paris
 oil on canvas 60.9 x 100.3 cm 
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA

1868 Alfred Sisley with his Wife 
oil on canvas 
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondation Corboud, Cologne, Germany

1868 Barges on the Seine 
oil on canvas 47 x 64 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1868 Boy with a Cat 
oil on canvas 123 x 66 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1868 Madame Darras 
oil on canvas 48 x 40 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1868 Portrait of Alfred Sisley 
oil on canvas 81 x 65 cm 
Sammlung E. G. Bührle, Zurich

1868 Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1868 The Clown 
oil on canvas 
Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

1868 The Gypsy ( aka In Summer ) 
oil on canvas 85 x 59 cm 
Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

1868 Woman in a Garden 
oil on canvas 
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland

1868c Landscape, Snow Effect 
oil on canvas 48.5 x 64.8 cm 
Private Collection

1869 La Grenouillere 
oil on canvas 65.1 x 92 cm 
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Winterhur, Switzerland

1869 La Grenouillère
 oil on canvas 66.5 x 81 cm 
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden

1869 La Grenouillere 
oil on canvas 80 x 59 cm 
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

1869 Léonard Renoir, the Artist's Father 
oil on canvas 62.2 x 47 cm 
Saint Louis Art Museum, MO

1869 Madame Théodore Charpentier 
oil on canvas 46.5 x 39 cm 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

1869 Woman in a Lace Blouse 
oil on canvas 81.5 x 65.5 cm 
Portland Museum of Art, Maine

1869c Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot 
oil on canvas 65 x 54 cm 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

1870 A Nymph by a Stream 
oil on canvas 67 x 123 cm 
National Gallery, London

1870 A Walk in the Woods ( aka Madame Lecour and her Children ) 
oil on canvas 
Private Collection

1870 Head of a Dog 
oil on canvas 21.9 x 20 cm 
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

1870 La Promenade 
oil on canvas 81.3 x 64.8 cm 
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA

1870 Madame Stora in Algerian Dress 
oil on canvas 
California Palace of the Legion of Honour, San Francisco, CA