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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 2h

Children on the Seashore, Guernsey (1883) sets young figures on the cliff-ringed sands of Moulin Huet bay. It is one of the fifteen pictures that Renoir began during about a month on the Channel island. He finished them after returning to his Paris studio.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Émile Zola's "L'Assommoir") www.artic.edu/artworks/105461

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The Artist's Family (1896), Renoir's largest portrait, gathers his household in a Paris garden. His wife, Aline, stands with young Pierre at her arm. The toddler is Jean Renoir, a future filmmaker and the nursemaid is Gabrielle Renard, a favorite Renoir model.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Luncheon of the Boating Party (1880–81) gathers Renoir's friends on a Seine-side terrace at Chatou. He posed a cross-section of his world, including fellow artists, an actress, and Aline Charigot, his future wife, cradling a dog at the left.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Madame Monet and Her Son (1874) records a scene three painters shared. At Argenteuil, Manet was painting the whole Monet family. Renoir arrived, borrowed paint, brushes and canvas, and set up beside him — while Monet painted Manet at his easel.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Renoir painted his dealer at least three times. The strangest is the earliest — Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1899) shows him in profile, bald, eyes lowered. The scarf is a nod to Réunion, the Indian Ocean island where he grew up.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Young Woman Sewing (1879) shows a woman absorbed in her needlework beside a burst of asters and chrysanthemums, the model is likely Aline Charigot, Renoir's future wife. Vermeer's Lacemaker was his favorite picture in the Louvre and this subject echoes it.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Bather with a Griffon Dog (1870) stands Lise Tréhot on the bank of the Seine, her small dog at her feet, her pose borrowed from the antique Venus pudica. This time the Salon said yes — though the reviews were bad, and one caricaturist called it pornographic.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

The Braid (1886–87) shows former circus acrobat Suzanne Valadon plaiting her hair. Valadon, who would become a painter herself, is depicted with Italian features as Renoir chased a Renaissance ideal over likeness.

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Auguste Renoir @augusterenoir.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Portrait of Alphonsine Fournaise (1879) rests the smiling Fournaise daughter against a balustrade on the Maison Fournaise terrace. For years it was wrongly titled À la Grenouillère, after the wrong riverside spot.

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