Edmond Renoir, Jr.

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, ...

Henri-Edmond Cross was born on May 20, 1856 in Douai, a small town close to the Belgian border in northern France. He spent his youth in Lille and there, at the age of ten, took dr...