Young Girl with a Cat, after a portrait of Julie Manet by Renoir

First Manet then the Impressionists followed the road paved by Courbet in representing reality in painting and went even further by initiating new research based on the perception ...

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...

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...

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...