Born on February 25, 1841, in Limoges, France, Pierre-Auguste Renoir was the sixth of seven children in a working-class family. The family moved to Paris in 1844, where he was immersed in the cultural ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a ...

Renoir's home in Cagnes-sur-Mer, in the South of France, was a source of inspiration (The Farm at Les Collettes, 1914). Bequest of Charlotte Gina Abrams, in memory of her husband, Lucien Abrams, 1961 ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, “Jean as a Huntsman” (“Jean en chasseur” 1910), oil on canvas, 68 x 35 in, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Gift through the Generosity of the Late Mr. Jean Renoir ...

“The Henriot Family” is now undergoing extensive repair and cleaning in the Barnes’ conservation lab, where deputy director of education and interpretation Martha Lucy saw the painting in a new light.

<p>Renoir, Pierre Auguste, b. Limoges, France, 1841; d. 1919. Painter, printmaker, sculptor. One of the founders of the Impressionist movement, Renoir produced some of the group's best-known images, ...

The new show focuses on the famed Impressionist’s works on paper. Were they masterpieces? Less than? That is for visitors to decide. By Dale Berning Sawa The 19th-century artist Camille Pissarro ...