Claude Renoir, Turned to the Left, from "L'Album des Douze Lithographies Originales de Pierre-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...

Claude Lorraine, whose artistic inspiration derived from the Roman Campagna, can be considered one of the great figures of 17th-century classical landscape painting. He arrived in ...

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...

Character: description, miniature in the middle of the leaf, 111 x 150 mm. Original: In the shield a man holding a sickle in his right hand and three barley cobs in his left. On th...

Character: description on folk. 5a and 5b, miniature on folk. 5a, 154 x 132 mm. There are three silver shells in the blue gable (2.1). Two crowned Tournament helmets rest on the ga...

Character: description on folk. 5b and 6a, miniature on folk. 5a, 166 x 151 mm. Quarter shield with crowned heart plate. It is red with a silver crossbar, above the crossbar is the...