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..."