Portrait of Auguste Renoir

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...

Flowers are everywhere in Renoir’s paintings, whether as part of the landscape or as a decorative element—for example, gracing a lady’s hat—and they continue the centuries-long tra...

In this bronze figure of a young washerwoman, the laundress is shown kneeling, her right leg bent under her, her left side supported by a wide-mouthed, overturned jar from which wa...