large Scroll views of the women of Renoir

This site attempts to bring out the beauty hidden in images by expanding and auto scrolling the images. In partcular this post is a selection of images featuring women in the paintings of the famous French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Choose an image and click. It will expand and automatically scroll view, revealing details you did not notice before !

Sitting women

The wonderful women of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919).

1. Young Woman Braiding Her Hair (1876). License (public domain) info here.
2. Deutsch: Porträt eines jungen Mädchens (1880-1890). License (public domain) info.
3. Sleeping Girl (1880). License (public domain) info.
4. Head of a Young Woman (late 19th century). License (public domain) info.

Nudes

Some nudes from Renoir. All soft, adorable.

1. Bather with a Griffon Dog. Lise on the bank of the Seine (1870). Lise is Lise Trehot, Renoir’s lover and model. She posed exclusively for Renoir and is depicted in most of the female figures in his paintings from 1866 to 1872. License (public domain) here.
2. Naked Woman in a Landscape (1883). A painting in the Impressionist style by Renoir. The beautiful model is Suzanne Valadon, an artist model. She was a much sought after model and posed for Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre-Cecile Puvis de Chavannes etc.. She learned to paint by watching the masters paint her and later became an acclaimed painter in her own right. License (public domain) here.
3. Baigneuse (1893). License (public domain) here.
4. La baigneuse endormie (1897). The bather is said to be Gabrielle Renard, the nanny of Renoir’s son Jean Renoir. License (public domain) here.

Various

1. La Balayeuse (1889). License (public domain) here.
2. Lise with a Parasol (1867).Lise is Lise Trehot, Renoir’s lover and model. License (public domain) here.
3. Dancing Girl with Castanets (1909). License (public domain) here.
4. Dancing Girl with Tambourine (1909). License (public domain) here.
5. Girl with a Basket of Fish (1890). License (public domain) here.
6. Girl with a Basket of Oranges (1889). License (public domain) here.
7. The Laundress (between 1877 and 1879). License (public domain) here.
8. Woman Reading (circa 1895). License (public domain) here.

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