Introduction: On this page you will find an impression of the 18+1hc=19 pictures that were shown by Renoir at the 2nd ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1876 (catalogue numbers 209-226+hc). I will render them by format and thematicaly; sometimes I render several options. All the pictures are portraits and figure paintings. There are some very beautiful examples of impressionist figure painting! There where the model blends with the background, where Renoir uses juxta-posed brushstrokes and where he uses a range of colours in the hair of the model. Note: If you double click on the first (of a cluster of) pictures and then click on full screen, you can create a slideshow.Enjoy!
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-221, Déjeuner chez Fournaise =1875, CR305, The Oarsmen (Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise), 55×66, AI Chicago (M20;R90II,p6344+;R2,p146;R108,no305;R30,no452)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-216, Tête d’enfant (app. à M. Choquet). Maybe?: 1876ca, Portraits of Marie-Sophie Chocquet, 36×45, private (iRx;R30,no214;R2,p164)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-209, femme et enfant. Uncertain option: 1873-77, Woman with Parasol and a Small Child on a Sunlit Hillside, 47×56, MFA Boston (iR2;R30,no303;R2,p164;M22)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-209, femme et enfant. Uncertain option: 1874, CR260, Camille Monet and Jean in the garden at Argenteuil,
51×38, NGA Washington (iR2;R30,no123;R31,no31;R2,p164;R108,no260;M21)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-209, femme et enfant. Very uncertain option: 1876-80, The first step, 111×81, private (iR52;R30,no414;R2,p164)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-225, la promenade. Now: 1875-76, CR111, Mother and Children (la promenade), 170×108, Frick New York (iR22;R90II,p45+64;R2,p164;R108,no111;R30,no158;R31,p197;M37).
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-223, Portrait de jeune fille (app. à M. Legrand). Now: 1875, CR141, Mademoiselle Legrand, 81×60, Philadelphia MA (iR2;R90II,p45+64;R2,p164;R108,no141;R30,no184;R31,p197;M28)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-223, Portrait de jeune fille. Compare: 1876, Delphine Legrand with jump robe, 24×20, Barnes (iR10;M25;R30,no230;R2,p164)
August Renoir: 2IE-1876-222 portrait de Mme D…, Uncertain option 1: 1873, Madame Darras as an Horsewoman, 48×40, Orsay (iR2;R30,no103;R2,p164;M1)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-222, portrait de Mme D… Uncertain option 2: 1876, CR163, Mme Alphonse Daudet, 47×37, Orsay (R30,p50=no255;R2,p164;R108,no163;M1) Also 3IE-1877-189
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-210, Sur la terrasse =1876, CR173, Portrait of Mme Chocquet by the window, 67×54, Pushkin (iR10;iR202;iR6;R90II,p43+62;R2,p164;R108,no173;R30,no223;M96)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-213, Liseuse (app. à M. Choquet). Now: 1876, CR174, Madame Chocquet Reading, 66×55, private NY (iR2;iR22;iR52;R90II,p44+62;R2,p164;R108,no174;R30,no224)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-211, Portrait (app. à M. Choquet). Maybe?: CR176, 1875, Portrait of Victor Chocquet, 46×37, Harvard Cambridge (iRx;R30,no225;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164;R108,no176;M32). Compare: 2IE-1876-214 Tête d’Homme (app. à M. Choquet).
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-214, Tête d’Homme (app. à M. Choquet). Probably: 1876, CR175, Victor Chocquet, 46×36, SOR Winterthur (R30,p45=no226;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164;R108,no175;M87)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-226, portrait de M. H… (pastel). Compare: 1875-77ca, Mme Henriot en travesti, 161×104, Columbus MA (iRx;R30,no159;R2,p164;M156)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-226, portrait de M. H… (pastel). Compare: 1880, Paul Cézanne, pastel, 54×45, A2012/05/02 (iRx;iR11;R3,p346;R1,p475;R3,p346;R2,p164) Chocquet coll.
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-224, Frédéric Bazille, peintre tué à Beaune-la-Rolande Now: CR28, 1867, Frederic Bazille Painting ‘The Heron’, 105×74, Orsay (iR2;R90II,p45+64;R2,p164+150;R108,no28;R31,no6;R30,no18;M1)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-226+hc, self-portrait. Probably: 1875ca, CR157, Self-Portrait, 39×32, CAI Williamstown (iR2;R2,p164;R90II,p45+64;R108,no157;R30,no180;M26)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-226+hc. Maybe: 1876, Self Portrait at the Age of Thirty-Five, 73×57, Harvard Cambridge (iR2;R2,p164;R30,no233;M32)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-220, portrait de M. M. Probably: 1875, CR132, portrait of Claude Monet, 84×60, Orsay (iR152;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164+185;R108,no132;R30,no163;M1)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-220, Portrait de M. M. Maybe: 1873-74, CR87, Claude Monet (the reader), 65x50cm, NGA Washington (iRx;R90II,p44;R2,p164;R108,no87;R30,no85;M21).
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-220, Portrait de M.M… Maybe?: 1872ca, CR22, Claude Monet reading, 61×50, Marmottan (iR2;R2,p164;R90II,p44;R108,no22;R30,no84;M2)
August Renoir: 2IE-1876-215, portrait d’Enfant (app. à M. Choquet). Uncertain option 1: 1876, Girl with a Watering Can, 100×73, NGA Washington (iRx;R30,no228;R2,p164;M21)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-215, Portrait d’enfant. Uncertain option 2: 1875ca, Child with a hoop, 62×48, Baltimore MA (iR52;R30,no154;R2,p164;M24)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-215, Portrait d’enfant. Uncertain option 3: 1875ca, Girl with a Dog, 31×23, MA Philadelphia (iRx;R30,no155;R2,p164;M28)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-218 Portrait de Mlle S… Maybe?: 1875, Jeanne Sisley, 37×28, A2013/05/09 (iRx;iR11;R30,no168;R2,p164)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-219, femme au piano (app. à M. Poupin). Now: 1876, CR219, Young Woman at the Piano, 93×74, AI Chicago (iR2;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164;R108,no219;R30,no232;M20)
August Renoir, 2IE-1876-212, Étude. Now: CR201, 1876ca, Study, torso of a woman in the sunlight, 81×65, Orsay (iR52;R2,p184+184;R90II,p44+62;R108,no201;R30,no204;M1)
Sources: See link for an account of my choices (with references, info, discussion, location on Google-maps). My main sources are Moffett (=R2), Berson (R90II), Dony (R30) and Raeburn (R31). Often the indentification of a painting is ‘uncertain’. Sometimes to ‘compare’ another picture is given that is (probably) similar to the painting that was exhibited. For explanation of the subscriptions, see here. My main sources for the pictures are the-athenaeum.org (=iR2), WikiCommons (=iR6) and Google images (=iR10). Sometimes I forgot the source (=iRx). For references to the additional sources (=aR) see at the bottom of the main page about Auguste Renoir.
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