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Auguste Renoir - one hundred paintings from 1875 to 1878

Renoir's penchant for portraiture attracted the attention of a range of patrons with avant-garde sensibilities. From the politically radical pastry cook Eugène Murer to the wealthy society lady Madame Georges Charpentier, Renoir painted all of his patrons with affectionate charm. One of the most splendid and ambitious portraits Renoir ever realized, the painting of Marguerite Charpentier with her children blends a modern informality and intimacy with the compositional rigor of an old master portrait. The painting also prominently displays the Charpentiers' advanced taste for Japanese arts. Portraiture sustained Renoir financially, especially after the Charpentier painting was exhibited at the 1879 Salon to great success. Renoir, in fact, met one of his best patrons, the banker Paul Bérard, at Mme Charpentier's home. They became very close—Renoir painted all of his children and visited the Bérards' country house in Wargemont regularly, where he explored other genres such as seascapes and luxuriant still lifes.

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The great boulevards 1875	The lovers 1875	The Seine at Argenteuil 1875	Torso before the bath 1875	Washhouse at lower Meudon 1875
Woman with a cat 1875	Young woman in a blue and pink striped shirt 1875	Young woman on a bench 1875	A girl with a watering can 1876	Alfred Sisley 1876
Ball at the Moulin de la Galette 1876	Banks of the river 1876	Conversation in a rose garden 1876	Garden in the rue Cortot 1876	Georges Riviere and Margot 1876
Georgette Charpentier seated 1876	Girl with a pink feather 1876	Head of a woman 1876	Head of a young woman wearing a blue scarf Madame Henriot 1876	Jeanne Durand Ruel 1876
Lady in a black dress 1876	Madame Alphonse Daudet 1876	Madame Chocquet reading 1876	Madame Henriot 1876	Madame Heriot en travesti 1876

Man on a staircase 1876	Margot 1876	Modele from the Moulin de la Galette 1876	Nini in the garden 1876	Nini Lopez 1876
Nude seated on a sofa 1876	Nude sitting in the forest 1876	Path through the high grass 1876	Portrait of a young woman 1876	Portrait of Nini Lopez 1876
Portraits of Marie Sophie Chocquet 1876	Reading the part 1876	Roses in a china vase 1876	Roses in a vase 1876	Self-portrait at the age of thirty five 1876
Tama the japanese dog 1876	Study torso sunlight effect 1876	The artist`s studio on rue Saint-Georges 1876	The banks of the Seine at Champrosay 1876	The first outing 1876
The first step 1876	The greenhouse 1876	The promenade 1870	The reader. Young woman reading a book 1876	La Couseuse 1876

The swing la Balancoire 1876	Victor Chocquet 1876	Woman on a staircase 1876	Woman with a rose 1876	Young man and young woman 1876
Young woman at the piano 1876	Young woman braiding her hair 1876	Young woman with a dog 1876	Young woman with a japanese umbrella 1876	At the cafe 1877
Bouquet in front of a mirror 1877	Canoeing young girl in a boat 1877	Eugene Murer 1877	First portrait of madame Georges Charpeitier 1877	Jeanne Samary in a low necked dress 1877
Jeanne Samary 1877	Leaving the conservatoire 1877	Path leading through tall grass 1877	Paul Meunier 1877	Portrait of a woman 1877
Portrait of Georges Riviere 1877	Portrait of Margot. Portrait of a model 1877	Portrait of the Countess Pourtales 1877	Reading couple Edmond Renoir and Marguerite Legrand 1877	Reflection 1877

The ingenue 1877	The reader 1877	The thinker 1877	Woman`s head 1877	Woman`s head Jeanne Samary 1877
Young woman in a straw hat 1877	Young woman in bright blue at the conservatory 1877	Young woman lifting her skirt 1877	Young woman with a veil 1877	A fence in the forest 1878
At the milliner`s 1878	At the milliner's study 1878	Bouquet of flowers 1878	Confidences 1878	Flowers in a vase 1878
Flowers in a vase 1878	Head of a young girl 1878	Jeanne Samary 1878	Jeanne Samary 1878	Madame Georges Charpentier and her children 1878
Mademoiselle Georgette Charpentier 1878	Peonies 1878	Portrait of an old woman madame le Coeur 1878	Portrait of Eugene Pierre Lestringuez 1878	Smiling young girl 1878

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