The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pierre‑Auguste Renoir (1841–1919) was one of the leading painters of the Impressionist movement. He employed short, expressive brushstrokes and vibrant, complementary colours to convey the shifting light and movement in his landscapes and figurative paintings.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection has been built object by object over a century and a half. It's a mark on what human creativity has produced that deserves to last. These images are drawn from that collection: images that have passed through the Met's curatorial eye and entered its permanent care, each one considered significant enough to keep.