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Thirty-eight paintings by Auguste Renoir from 1858 to 1869

Renoir began his artistic career as a porcelain painter; however, his ambitions to become a professional artist prompted him to seek other instruction. He began copying paintings at the Louvre in 1860 and eventually entered the studio of the academic artist Charles Gleyre, where he met Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley. The four friends soon began painting in the forest of Fontainebleau, although Renoir always remained dedicated to figure painting and portraits. His early female nudes were heavily influenced by the earthy palette and buxom figure types of Realist painter Gustave Courbet.
In the summer of 1869, Renoir painted for two months alongside Monet at La Grenouillère, a boating and bathing establishment outside Paris . Their sketchlike technique of broad, loose brushstrokes and their brightened palette attempted to capture the effects of the sun streaming through the trees on the rippling water. This painting campaign catalyzed the development of the Impressionist aesthetic .

Crown of Roses 1858	Reclining nude 1860	The artist`s mother 1860	Sleeping cat 1862	The return of the boating party 1862
Arum and conservatory plants 1864	Lise Sewing 1866	Diana the Huntress 1867	Romaine lascaux 1864	Spring flowers 1864
William Sisley 1864	Colonel Barton Howard Jenks 1865	Portrait of mademoiselle Sicotg 1865	Two figures in a landscape 1866	The painter Jules le Coeur walking his dogs in the forest of fontainebleau 1866

The inn of Mother Anthony 1866	The fairies pond 1866	In St.Cloud park 1866	Flowers in a vase 1866	Spring bouquet 1866
Frederic Bazille painting the Heron 1867	Lise with umbrella 1867	The Champs Elysees during the Paris fair of 1876 1867	The pont des Arts and the Institut de France 1867	In summer. The gypsy 1868
Landscape 1868	Portrait of the couple Sisley 1868	Skaters in the bois de Boulogne 1868	The clown James Bollinger Mazutreek 1868	The painter Alfred Sisley 1868
Woman in a garden Woman with a seagull 1868	La Grenouillere 1869	La Grenouillere 1869	La Grenouillere 1869	Leonard Renoir 1869
Woman by a Fence 1866	Mixed flowers in an earthware pot 1869	Young boy with a cat 1869	Woman in a lace blouse 1869	Woman Standing by a Tree 1866
A clearing in the woods 1865