Commercial Galleries: Galleries: We invite you to register and list your site (no charge for this service)
Original works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Art Institute of Chicago Art Explorer - Images and Text Resources
Art Institute of Chicago Collection Database NEW!
15 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir online
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas NEW!
8 works online
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Many works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Woman with Parrot, 1871
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
21 paintings
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana NEW!
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
La Promenade, 1870
Albert Cahen d'Anvers, 1881
Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Many works, including: By the Seashore, 1883
The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes, 1908-14
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Seated Female Nude, or After the Bath, ca.1895
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Romaine Lacaux, 1864
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Nini in the Garden (Nini Lopez), 1875-76
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
7 works online
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on Mrs Renoir, sculpture bust
Musée d'Orsay, Paris NEW!
Commentary on 4 paintings by Renoir
Musée d'Orsay Collection Database, Paris NEW!
Many works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir online
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
(Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Sculpture collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Drawings collection online
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Paintings collection online
Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Le Chapeau épinglé (Pinning the Hat), 1898
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
49 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
7 works
Pierre-Auguste Renoir at the National Gallery, London, UK
11 paintings online
Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Réunion des Musées Nationaux, France (in French) 
(Click the magnifying-glass icon to zoom, then drag the corner of the window to make it larger)
5 works online
Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
After the Luncheon (La fin du déjeuner)
The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
Lots of information about Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81
Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums, Scotland
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)
Mini-site for the 2005 exhibition Cezanne/Renoir
N.B. The zoom-in feature ("esplora") only works with Internet Explorer
Ackland Art Museum at the University of North Carolina
Dance in the country, etching
Undocumented feature: Click here to see the image at a much higher resolution.
Anderson Gallery at the VCU School for the Arts, Richmond, Virginia
Seated Nude, etching, 1882
Art Collection of the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango, Colombia
Art Fund for UK Museums
6 works
Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia NEW!
2 works online
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Bébé, ca.1898-99
Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide NEW!
Coco (The artist's youngest son, Claude), ca.1905
Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania
Girl in a Red Ruff, 1884
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna O Waiwhetu, New Zealand NEW!
(You need to click "Yes, I accept" the copyright rules before viewing the site)
Studies Of A Young Woman
Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio
(You may need to click "I accept these terms")
Mlle. Jeanne Samary
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
2 works online
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Blonde Bather, 1881
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
The Onions, 1881
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Self-Portrait, ca.1875
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts - Provenance Research Project
6 works
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
8 works
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Mademoiselle Romaine Lacaux, 1864
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
View From Cap Martin of Monte Carlo
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
13 works by or related to the artist
Currier Gallery of Art, New Hampshire NEW!
David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
DePaul University Museum, Chicago
Louis Valtat, lithograph, 1904
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Tennessee
The Wave
Dublin City Gallery | The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland
Les Parapluies
E.G. Bührle Collection, Zurich
(Click on the title to see a specific work, then click on the image to enlarge)
Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at the University of Oklahoma
4 paintings online
Frick Collection, New York City
Mother and Children, 1874-76
GAM - Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin
Portrait of the Artist's Son, Pierre
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Estelle in a Red Hat, 1876
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Coco, 1905
Jewish Museum in Prague, Czech Republic - Provenance Research & Restitution
Nude in the Country (item #89.495)
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
83 paintings - click on "Groupe suivant" to see page 2 of search results
Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland NEW!
Alphabetically under "R"
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
3 paintings by Renoir
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
The Little Blacksmith, plaster sculpture, 1916
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
5 prints by Renoir
MacKenzie Art Gallery, Saskatchewan
Manchester City Art Gallery, UK
Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas
Portrait of Lucie Berard (Girl with a White Apron), 1884
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York
8 works
Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin NEW!
La Grenouillère (The Frog Pond)
Musée d'Unterlinden, Colmar, France (in French) NEW!
Joseph le Coeur, ca.1870
Musée de Douai, France (in French)
Portrait de femmes, ca.1910
Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris (in French)
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Bordeaux, France (in French)
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Jeune Fille assise au Chapeau blanc
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Peches et cerises
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (in Spanish)
Jeune femme au chapeau vert
Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon
Portrait of Madame Claude Monet
Museu de Arte de São Paulo, Brazil (in Portuguese)
Museum of Fine Arts, Lyon, France (in French)
Femme jouant de la guitare
Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design
Young Woman Reading an Illustrated Journal (image 52)
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
National Museums and Galleries of Wales
Nationalmuseum, Sweden
La Conversation
La Grenouillère
New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Choose the artist in the drop-down list and click "search"
New Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
Young Girls, ca.1877
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida - Provenance Research
Man with Carnation
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma
Portrait of a Girl, ca.1895
Oskar Reinhart Collection, Switzerland
La Grenouillère, 1869
Girl sleeping, 1897
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna NEW!
Palazzo Ruspoli, Rome (in Italian)
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
19 works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir online
Philadelphia Museum of Art
(On the zoom-in page, use the slider bar to magnify the image)
Sunset at Sea, 1879
Pomona College Museum of Art, California
Click on "View objects by this artist"
Portland Museum of Art, Maine NEW!
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Nude, 1876
Reading Public Museum, Pennsylvania
Le Chapeau Epingle (The Hat Pin), lithograph
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Coco (Claude Renoir), bronze bust, 1908
Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
3 paintings online
Seattle Art Museum
Landscape
Southampton City Gallery, England NEW!
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart (in German)
Studio Esseci, Italy (in Italian)
Click "Immagini" to see a large image from a 2003-2004 exhibition
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Portrait of Misia Sert, 1904
The Barnes Foundation, Pennsylvania
Girl with a Basket of Fish, 1880s
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Frauenkopf oder Frau mit Rose
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Yale University Art Gallery, Connecticut - Provenance Research
Mont Sainte-Victoire, 1889
Yamagata Museum of Art, Japan
Jeune fille lisant dans un jardin, un chien sur les genoux, 1874
Smithsonian Institution Art Inventories
List of works nationwide from two sources: the Inventory of American Paintings Executed before 1914 and the Inventory of American Sculpture (only a few percent of listings have an accompanying image)
Commercial Galleries:
Galerie Nicolas Plescoff, Paris (in French)
"Permanent Collection" - These works appear to not be for sale
3 sculptural works executed in conjunction with Richard Guino
(Note that the JPG image of The Judgment of Paris is larger than displayed on the page)
Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from past sales
Bouquet Estival, ca.1858-60
Peter Nahum At The Leicester Galleries, London, UK
Archive of past displayed works which are "sold" or "not for sale"
Theobald Jennings Fine Art Dealers, London, UK -- Notable past sales NEW!
Place de la Trinite, 1893
Professional Tools:
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 411
Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
Artcyclopedia
Masterscan feature: Cornfield
Artcyclopedia
Portrait of Mademoiselle Legrand
Artonline
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
CGFA
Insecula
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Unidentified paintings from a 2002 exhibition; the sixth (wheat field) appears to be signed by Renoir
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
The middle (unidentified) painting is Portrait de Mlle Jeanne Samary
Rasiel's Wallpapers
(Click on the size of the scan you wish to view)
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
Artyst, Peintures du Monde (in French)
Artyzm
Bert Christensen's Cyberspace Home
Boston College Fine Arts Department
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Olga's Gallery
PBase Photo Sharing
(Set the size to "original" to see images at their highest resolution)
The Athenaeum
1169 works online by Renoir
The Halter Collection
University of Michigan SILS Art Image Browser
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Other Web Sites:
Artdreamguide (in Italian)
Biographical information and a guide to the museums owning important collections of the artist's work. Plus many examples of Renoir's works.
Beloit College Department of Classics
The Judgement of Paris
FBI Art Theft Program
2 paintings stolen in Sweden and subsequently recovered
FBI Art Theft Program
2 paintings by Renoir
Interpol Stolen Works of Art
Tête de fillette, stolen from an auction house in Paris
Orientalist Art of the Nineteenth Century
The Jewish Wedding (After Delacroix), 1875
The Fine Arts Conservancy, Florida
Interesting before-and-after examples of artwork restorations
View of a town in a valley - South of France
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
The Orientalist Gallery / Enzie Shahmiri NEW!
The Running Horse
Riding in the Bois de Boulogne, 1873
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Biographical info
Artnet Magazine
The Loge, 1874
Artnet Magazine
Grande corbeille de fleurs d'été, 1890
Slate Magazine
"A Certain Slant of Light: Renoir's luminescence is darker than one might think," article by Christopher Benfey
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
La Parisienne, 1874
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: At Last, They Go Wild For Renoir's Portraits
Time Magazine
"Arcadia Reconstituted", 1973 article by Robert Hughes
|
|
|
|
