Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les voiliers au bord de mer (Sailboats by the Sea) (ca. 1895)

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, ...