Which pictures did Renoir exhibit in 1876? On this page you will find an accounted impression of the 18+1hc=19 pictures that were shown by Auguste Renoir at the 2nd ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1876 (catalogue numbers 209-226+hc). 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 used juxta-posed brushstrokes and where he uses a range of colours in the hair of the model.
I will render them by format and thematicaly. 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!
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-211, Portrait (app. à M. Choquet) =? 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).
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-214, Tête d’Homme (app. à M. Choquet) =!? 1876, CR175, Victor Chocquet, 46×36, SOR Winterthur (R30,p45=no226;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164;R108,no175;M87)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-210, Sur la terrasse; Appartient à M. Choquet =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)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-213, Liseuse (app. à M. Choquet) = 1876, CR174, Madame Chocquet Reading, 66×55, private NY (iR2;iR22;iR52;R90II,p44+62;R2,p164;R108,no174;R30,no224)
Auguste Renoir: 1876ca, Portraits of Marie-Sophie Chocquet, 36×45, private (iRx;R30,no214;R2,p164) =?? 2IE-1876-216, Tête d’enfant (app. à M. Choquet)
Auguste 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)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-212, Étude = 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)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-218, Portrait de Mlle S… =? 1875, 1F168, Jeanne Sisley, 37×28, A2013/05/09 (iRx;iR11;R30=R193,no168;R2,p164) Expo: =? BJ1907/12-2, Tête d’enfant (iR19).
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-219, femme au piano (app. à M. Poupin) = 1876, CR219, Young Woman at the Piano, 93×74, AI Chicago (iR2;R90II,p44+63;R2,p164;R108,no219;R30,no232;M20)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-223, Portrait de jeune fille (app. à M. Legrand) =? 1875, SDbr, 71D141=72F184=85F180=07D495, Mademoiselle Legrand, 81×60, Philadelphia MA (iR2;R90II,p45+64;R2,p164;R108,no141;R30=R193,no184;R90,no180;R185,no495;R31,p197;M28) Provenance: M. Legrand.
Auguste Renoir: 1876, 71D180=72F230=85F226=07D497, SDbr, Delphine Legrand with jump robe, 107×71, Barnes Philadelphia (iR10;M25;R129,no180;R30=R193,no230;R190,no226;R185,no497;R2,p164) Provenance: M. Legrand. Compare: 2IE-1876-223, Portrait de jeune fille; Appartient à M. Legrand.
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-225, la promenade = 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).
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-224, Frédéric Bazille, peintre tué à Beaune-la-Rolande; Appartient à M. Manet = CR28, 1867, Frederic Bazille Painting ‘The Heron’, 105×74, Orsay (iR2;R90II,p45+64;R2,p164+150;R108,no28;R31,no6;R30,no18;M1)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-226+hc, Self-portrait =!? 1875ca, CR157, Self-Portrait, 39×32, CAI Williamstown (iR2;R2,p164;R90II,p45+64;R108,no157;R30,no180;M26)
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-226+hc =? 1876, Self Portrait at the Age of Thirty-Five, 73×57, Harvard Cambridge (iR2;R2,p164;R30,no233;M32)
Auguste Renoir: 1880, SDtl, Paul Cézanne, pastel, 54×45, A2012/05/02 (iRx;iR11;R3,p346;R1,p475;R3,p346;R2,p164) Provenance: Former Chocquet collection. Expo: compare: 2IE-1876-226, Portrait de M. H… (pastel).
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-209, Femme et enfant; appartient à M. Poupin. 3 very uncertain options:
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-215, Portrait d’enfant, appartenant à M. Choquet (sic). 3 very uncertain options:
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-220, Portrait de M. M., appartenant à M. Dollfus. 3 options:
Auguste Renoir: 2IE-1876-222, Portrait de Mme D. Two very uncertain options.
Sources: Often the indentification of a painting is ‘uncertain’. For no.223 I render a second more uncertain option. For the numbers 209 +215 +220 +222 I render compilations of 2 or 3 (very) uncertain options. See link for an account of my choices (with references, info, discussion, location on Google-maps). For explanation of the subscriptions, see here.
My main sources are Moffett (=R2), Berson (R90II), Dony (R30) and Raeburn (R31). 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.
Recommanded citation: “Impressionism: Auguste Renoir, an impression of his paintings exhibited at the 2nd ‘impressionist’ exposition in 1876. Last modified 2026/03/24. https://www.impressionism.nl/renoir-1876-expo/.”
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