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Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Mademoiselle Legrand, 1875
Source: Artcyclopedia; photograph by Michael Weinberg
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I want to paint stunning pictures that you can sell for very high prices.
| | - Pierre-Auguste Renoir, to art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel |
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into the following different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Detailed information about the artist and his works
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
St Tropez, France, 1898-1900
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
21 paintings
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
La Promenade, 1870
Albert Cahen d'Anvers, 1881
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) NEW! 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: By the Seashore, 1883
The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes, 1908-14
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Seated Female Nude, or After the Bath, ca.1895
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Romaine Lacaux, 1864
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Nini in the Garden (Nini Lopez), 1875-76
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on Mrs Renoir, sculpture bust
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Commentary on 4 paintings by Renoir
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris
Many works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Le Chapeau épinglé (Pinning the Hat), 1898
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
49 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
7 works
National Gallery, London, UK NEW!
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French)
5 works online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
After the Luncheon (La fin du déjeuner)
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian) NEW!
Mini-site for the 2005 exhibition Cezanne/Renoir
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Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Dance in the country, etching
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Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia
2 works online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto NEW!
The Concert
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
Coco (The artist's youngest son, Claude), ca.1905
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Girl in a Red Ruff, 1884
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Brooklyn Museum, New York City NEW!
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
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Mlle. Jeanne Samary
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
2 works online
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Blonde Bather, 1881
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Onions, 1881
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Self-Portrait, ca.1875
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
6 works
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
View From Cap Martin of Monte Carlo
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
13 works by or related to the artist
Crocker Art Museum, California
Paysage à Cagnes
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
8 works online
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Standing Woman with Basket, charcoal drawing
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Louis Valtat, lithograph, 1904
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Tennessee
The Wave
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Les Parapluies
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. NEW!
Head of a Child
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
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Falmouth Art Gallery, England NEW!
2 works online
Finnish National Gallery Art Collections, Helsinki, Finland NEW!
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
4 paintings online
Frick Collection, New York City
Mother and Children, 1874-76
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Portrait of the Artist's Son, Pierre
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel NEW!
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Estelle in a Red Hat, 1876
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Coco, 1905
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic - Provenance Research & Restitution
Nude in the Country (item #89.495)
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
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Le Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France (in French)
Portrait de femmes, ca.1910
Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
3 paintings by Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
The Little Blacksmith, plaster sculpture, 1916
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
5 prints by Renoir
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Portrait of Lucie Berard (Girl with a White Apron), 1884
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
8 works
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
La Grenouillère (The Frog Pond)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
7 works online
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (in French)
Joseph le Coeur, ca.1870
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France (in French)
Femme jouant de la guitare
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France (in French) NEW!
Bouquet de Chrysanthèmes
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Jeune Fille assise au Chapeau blanc
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Peches et cerises
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Jeune femme au chapeau vert
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of Madame Claude Monet
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum Collection Database for the Region of Haute-Normandie, France NEW!
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
La Conversation
La Grenouillère
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2 works online
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Young Girls, ca.1877
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Provenance Research
Man with Carnation
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Portrait of a Girl, ca.1895
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
La Grenouillère, 1869
Girl sleeping, 1897
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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19 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Sunset at Sea, 1879
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
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Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey NEW!
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Nude, 1876
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch) NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Coco (Claude Renoir), bronze bust, 1908
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online
Seattle Art Museum
Landscape
Southampton City Art Gallery, England
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Madame Victor Choquet
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003-2004 exhibition
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Portrait of Misia Sert, 1904
The Albertina, Vienna NEW!
Portrait of a young girl (Elisabeth Maître), 1879
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) NEW!
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
The Artist's Family, 1896
The British Museum, London, UK
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark NEW!
Le Moulin de la Galette, 1875-76
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark NEW!
Young People in the Street, pastel on paper, ca.1877
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid NEW!
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Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Le Chapeau Épinglé, lithograph, 1898
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Frauenkopf oder Frau mit Rose
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut - Provenance Research
Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1889
Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan
Jeune fille lisant dans un jardin, un chien sur les genoux, 1874
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
6 works
Flemish Art Collection Database, Belgium (in Dutch)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
83 paintings - click on "Groupe suivant" to see page 2 of search results
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE) NEW!
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Miscellaneous Sites:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Beloit College Department of Classics
The Judgement of Paris
FBI Art Theft Program
2 paintings stolen in Sweden and subsequently recovered
FBI Art Theft Program
2 paintings by Renoir
Galerie Nicolas Plescoff, Paris (in French)
"Permanent Collection" - These works appear to not be for sale
3 sculptural works executed in conjunction with Richard Guino
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Interpol Stolen Works of Art
Tête de fillette, stolen from an auction house in Paris
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
Bouquet Estival, ca.1858-60
Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
The Jewish Wedding (After Delacroix), 1875
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
View of a town in a valley - South of France
The Modernist Journals Project
The Orientalist Gallery / Enzie Shahmiri
The Running Horse
Riding in the Bois de Boulogne, 1873
Theobald Jennings Fine Art Dealers, London, UK -- Notable past sales
Place de la Trinite, 1893
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pierre-Auguste Renoir 
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Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artnet Magazine
The Loge, 1874
Artnet Magazine
Grande corbeille de fleurs d'été, 1890
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) NEW!
Slate Magazine
"A Certain Slant of Light: Renoir's luminescence is darker than one might think," article by Christopher Benfey
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
Essay on La Parisienne, 1874
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: At Last, They Go Wild For Renoir's Portraits
Time Magazine
"Arcadia Reconstituted", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
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Renoir's Garden
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Renoir, My Father
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Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age
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Renoir: Oil Paintings, 1860-1917
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Renoir: Color & Nature
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Renoir, Life, Art, and Letters
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Renoir: Moulin de la Galette
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Renoir: Life and Works
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Renoir: Taschen Posterbook
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