Renoir, Parisians in Algerian clothes (Harem) (1872)

Renoir once quipped that had God not created the female breast, he might never have become an artist. Indeed, the full, womanly bosom figures prominently in Renoir's loving portray...

The 1880s were troubled years for Renoir, replete with changes both in his work and personal life. During the first years of the decade, the income from his portrait painting allow...

Louis Valtat belonged to a generation of artists that straddled the period between Impressionism and the early-twentieth-century avant-garde movements. Born in Dieppe on August 8, ...

It was unclear until only recently where and when Auguste Renoir had painted Woman with a Parasol in a Garden. Some authors hold that it was executed during summer 1873, when the p...