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The Grands Boulevards (French: Les Grands Boulevards) is an oil on canvas painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, painted in 1875. The painting illustrates a busy Paris boulevard, showing the effects of industrialisation and Haussmannisation. The image is housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It is considered Renoir's most famous view of Paris.
The Swing, by former resident Pierre-Auguste Renoir, depicts the garden and was painted on site (1876) The Musée de Montmartre (French pronunciation: [myze də mɔ̃maʁtʁ], Montmartre Museum) is located in Montmartre, at 8-14 rue Cortot in the 18th (XVIII) arrondissement of Paris, France.
(French: Danse dans la Ville) 1883: 180 cm × 90 cm (71 in × 35 in) Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Dance in the Country (French: Danse à la Campagne) 1883: 180 cm × 90 cm (71 in × 35 in) Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France Children on the Seashore, Guernsey (French: Enfants au Bord de la Mer, Guernesey) 1883
The Musée des Arts et Métiers (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ e metje]; English: Museum of Arts and Crafts) is an industrial design museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794 as a repository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.
La Loge ('The Theatre Box') is an 1874 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is part of the collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. [1] The painting depicts a young couple in a box at the Paris theatre. The woman was modeled by Nini Lopez, Renoir's new model who would feature in fourteen of his paintings over the next few years.
It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. [1] The painting depicts the farm in Cagnes-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean coast of Southern France to which Renoir was forced to relocate in 1908 to help alleviate the effects of his rheumatoid arthritis. Although the original farmhouse is depicted in the painting, Renoir actually lived ...
Paysage Bords de Seine was painted by Renoir in 1879. In June 1925, the painting was purchased by the Paris art gallery Bernheim-Jeune from a "Madame Papillon" (possibly Alphonsine Fournaise Papillon, a figure in the artist's Luncheon of the Boating Party). [1] In January 1926, Herbert L. May purchased the painting from Bernheim-Jeune.
Bernheim-Jeune, when at 25 Boulevard de la Madeleine, Paris, 1910. Bernheim-Jeune gallery is one of the oldest art galleries in Paris.. Opened on Rue Laffitte in 1863 [1] by Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), friend of Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, it changed location a few times before settling on Avenue Matignon.