Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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![]() A Girl with a Watering Can 1876 Oil on canvas 39 1/2 x 28 3/4 in. (100 x 73 cm) The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. |
![]() Rowers Lunch (A Canoeists' Luncheon) 1879-80 Oil on canvas 21 1/2 x 26" (55.1 x 65.9 cm) The Art Institute of Chicago |
![]() Beach Scene, Guernesey (Enfants au bord de la mer a Guernesey) |
![]() La Loge (The Theater Box) 1874 Oil on canvas 80 x 63.5 cm (31 1/2 x 25") Courtauld Institute Galleries, London |
On the Terrace 1881 Oil on canvas 39 1/2 x 31 7/8" (100.5 x 81 cm) The Art Institute of Chicago |
Roses and Jasmine in a Delft Vase |
Sleeping Girl (known as Girl with a Cat) 1880 Oil on canvas 120 x 94 cm Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts |
![]() Bathers (Les baigneuses) c. 1918 Oil on canvas 26 1/2 x 32 in. (80 x 65 cm) The Barnes Foundation, Merion, Pennsylvania |
![]() Danseuse (Dancer) 1874 Oil on canvas 142.5 x 94.5 cm (56 1/8 x 37 1/8") National Gallery of Art, Washington |
![]() Jean 1900 "My father loved to paint my hair, and his fondness for the golden ringlets which came down to my shoulders filled me with despair. At the age of six, and in spite of my trousers, many people mistook me for a girl. Street urchins ran jeering after me, calling me 'Mademoiselle' and asking me what I had done with my skirt. I impatiently awaited the day when I was to enter the College de Sainte-Croix, where regulations required a hairstyle more suited to middle-class ideals. To my great disappointment my father constantly postponed the date of my entry, which for me signified the blissful shedding of those locks..." |