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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.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago NEW!
Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery, UK
St Tropez, France, 1898-1900
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
7 works online
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Woman with Parrot, 1871
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
21 paintings
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) 
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
Still Life with Bouquet, 1871
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh NEW!
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
7 works
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)
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Academy Art Museum, Maryland
Olive Trees, 1905
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)
Mini-site for the 2005 exhibition Cezanne/Renoir
N.B. The zoom-in feature ("esplora") only works with Internet Explorer
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Dance in the country, etching
Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Akron Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
(Click on the "View objects by this artist" link)
Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, Cardiff
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
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
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery / Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio NEW!
Mlle. Jeanne Samary, ca.1878
Fog On Guernsey (brouillard A Guernsey), 1883
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
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 NEW!
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C.
Head of a Child
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Falmouth Art Gallery, England
2 works online
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
4 paintings online
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
La Promenade
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Portrait of the Artist's Son, Pierre
Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Woman Arranging Her Hat, ca.1890
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. NEW!
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
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic - Provenance Research & Restitution
Nude in the Country (item #89.495)
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Young Girls at the Piano, ca.1889
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
Alphabetically under "R"
Le Musée de la Chartreuse de Douai, France (in French)
Portrait de femmes, ca.1910
Los Angeles County Museum of Art NEW!
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Magyar Nemzeti Galéria (Hungarian National Gallery), Budapest
Woman with drapery, ca.1908
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
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
La Grenouillère (The Frog Pond)
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
7 works online
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (mostly in French)
Portrait de 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)
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
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
The guitar player
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
6 paintings from this museum, and a sculpture from Tokyo's National Museum of Modern Art
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
La Conversation
La Grenouillère
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
2 works online
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Young Girls, ca.1877
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
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Sunset at Sea, 1879
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Museum of Art, Maine
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Nude, 1876
Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (in Dutch)
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Coco (Claude Renoir), bronze bust, 1908
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online
Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) Museum of Art, Georgia
Le Chapeau Epingle (The Pinned Hat), etching, 1894
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
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
The work isn't visible on the first page; keep clicking "next"
The Albertina, Vienna
Portrait of a young girl (Elisabeth Maître), 1879
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
The Artist's Family, 1896
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Le Moulin de la Galette, 1875-76
The Ordrupgaard Collection, Charlottenlund, Denmark
Young People in the Street, pastel on paper, ca.1877
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada
Femme nue couchee, etching, 1906
University of Missouri Museum of Art and Archaeology, Columbia, Missouri
Woman Carrying a Water Bucket
Valtion Taidemuseo (Finnish National Gallery), Helsinki, Finland
Victoria and Albert Museum Catalogue, London, UK
Le Chapeau Épinglé, lithograph, 1898
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
The Artist's Son, Jean, Drawing, 1901
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
Quite a few works online
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)
Smithsonian American Art Museum National 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:
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
(Note that the JPG image of The Judgment of Paris is larger than displayed on the page)
Interpol Stolen Works of Art
Tête de fillette, stolen from an auction house in Paris
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
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
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 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
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
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 London Evening Standard
"A blot on Renoir's landscape", 2007 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer
"At Last, They Go Wild For Renoir's Portraits", article by Hilton Kramer
"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon
| Look Inside Books: | Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader. | |
| Search Inside Books: | Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy.
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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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