Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Portrait of Alphonsine Fournaise.

1879. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.

Mlle. Alphonsine Fournaise, daughter of Le Pere Fournais, the owner of a small hotel and restaurant in Chatou, which Renoir frequented with his friends. Mlle. Fournais posed for Renoir in several paintings, including Le Grenoillère. Renoir painted The Luncheon of the Boating party, in which the Fournaise family are painted with their friends.
See: Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Girl with a Fan (Mlle. Alphonsina Fournez).

The Bathers.
Portrait of Marie Murer.
The Umbrellas.
The Bathers. Detail.
A Girl.
Portrait of Mme. Théodore Charpentier.
Jeanne Durand-Ruel.
Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary.
Portrait of Georges Riviére.
Madame Charpentier with Her Children.
Two Little Circus Girls.
Young Boy on the Beach of Yport (Robert Nunès).
In the Garden. (Dans le jardin).
Gabrielle with Renoir's Children.
The Family of the Artist.
Landscape in Berneval with People (Paysage à Berneval avec personnages).
The Clown (Claude Renoir).
Young Spanish Woman with a Guitar.
Clown.
A Young Woman.
Girls at the Piano.
Noirmoutier.
Seated Bather.
Gabrielle with a Rose.
Two Women and a Child.
Self-Portrait.
Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary. Detail.
Young Woman with a Veil.
The Lunch.
Self-Portrait.
Mussel Collectors at Berneval (Coast of Normandy).
Young Girl with Parasol (Aline Nunes).
A Girl.
Girl Braiding Her Hair (Suzanne Valadon).
Child with a Whip.
Young Woman Wearing a Hat (Jeune femme au chapeau).
Mme. Monet Reading "Le Figaro".
Portrait of Mme. Darras.
Madame Monet with Her Son.
The Seine at Argenteuil.
The Gust of Wind.
Pont Neuf, Paris.
Little Miss Romaine Lacaux.
Portrait of William Sisley.
Portrait of Mademoiselle Sicot.
At the Inn of Mother Anthony.
Woman Standing by a Tree.
Woman in a Boat.
Diana.
La Grenouillère.
Barges on the Seine.
The Promenade.
Woman in a Park.
Head of a Dog.
Roses.
Country Footpath in the Summer.
The Parisienne.
The Dancer.
View of Argenteuil.
Portrait of Charles Le Cœur.
Woman Reading.
The First Outing.
Nude in the Sunlight.
A Girl with a Watering-Can.
The Swing.
Young Woman with a Veil.
Head of a Woman.
Nude.
Young Woman Braiding Her Hair.
Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary.
Madame Charpentier.
Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary.
Portrait of a Woman. (Portrait de femme).
The Vintagers.
Two Women with Umbrellas.
Banks of the Seine at Asnieres.
The Luncheon of the Boating Party.
Still Life with Peaches.
By the Lake.
Woman with a Muff.
A Woman with A Dog (Portrait of Madame Renoir).
Two Sisters (On the Terrace).
Mother and Child.
Doges' Palace, Venice.
Two Girls in Black.
Girl with a Fan (Mlle. Alphonsina Fournez).
Field of Banana Trees.
The Mosque (Arab Holiday).
Railway Bridge at Chatou.
Ebbing Tide at Yport (Marée basse à Yport).
By the Seashore.
Children on the Beach of Guernesey.
Le Jardin du Luxembourg.
Portrait of Madame Hagen.
Study for "The Bathers".
Children's Afternoon at Wargemont.
Portrait of a Woman.
Portrait of Caroline Rémy ("Séverine").
Girl with a Hoop (Marie Goujon).
Bouquet of Chrysanthemums.
Young Girl Reading.
Aline and Pierre.
The Bathers.
Girl with Brown Hair.
The Washer-Women.
Girl with a Basket of Fish.
Landscape at Vétheuil.
On the Meadow.
Young Girl Combing Her Hair.
The Bathing.
Apples and Flowers (Les pommes et fleurs).
View of the New Building of the Sacre-Cœur.
Yvonne and Christine Lerolle Playing the Piano.
Guitar Lesson.
A Hat with a Pin.
The Toilet.
Landscape.
A Seating Bather.
A Church at Cagnes.
Terrace at Cagnes.
The Walk.
Bather.
House at Cagnes.
Ode to Flowers.
Dancer with Castanets (Gabrielle Renard).
Dancer with Tambourne (Gabrielle Renard).
Seated Young Girl (Hélène Bellon).
Bouquet of Roses (Bouquet de roses).
Gabrielle with Jewel Box.
After the Bath.
Caryatides.
Bather Drying Herself.
Portrait of M. and Mme. Bernheim de Villers.
Bather Admiring Herself in the Water, called Psyche.
Roses in a Vase.
Young Girl with a Rose (Mme. Colonna Romano).
Seated Bather.
Banks of the Seine at Champrosay.
Young Woman Wearing a Hat with Flowers. (Jeune femme au chapeau de fleurs).
Nude.
Study of a Nude.
The Pont des Arts, Paris.
In the Summer.
A Boy with a Cat.
Seating Girl.
Garden at Fontenay.
In the Garden.
Woman with a Cat.
Blonde Nude.
After the Bath.
Reading Children.
Little Girl Gleaning.
After the Bath.
City Dance (Suzanne Valadon and Eugène Pierre Lestringuez).
The Bather.
Arum and Conservatory Plants.
La Grenouillère.
Flowers in a Vase.
Bather (La Baigneuse au griffon).
A Morning Ride in the Bois de Boulogne.
Bust of a Woman, also called Before the Bath or The Toilet.
La Loge.
Portrait of a Woman (Mme. Georges Hartmann?).
Conversation with the Gardener.
The Great Boulevards.
Bouquet in Front of a Mirror.
Man on a Staircase (L'Homme sur un escalier).
La sortie du Conservatoire.
Lady in Black.
La Moulin de la Galette.
La Moulin de la Galette.
Portrait of Madame Henriot.
Portrait of Georgette Charpentier on a Chair.
Portrait of Claude Monet.
Portrait of Mme. Alphonse Daudet.
Woman on a Staircase (Femme sur un escalier).
Country Dance.
A Woman Playing the Guitar.
Roses and Jasmin in a Delft Vase. (Les roses et jasmin dans le vase de Delft).
The Luncheon of the Boating Party.
St. Mark's Square, Venice.
Algerian Landscape. The Ravine of the "Femme Sauvage".
Charles and Georges Durand-Ruel.
Garden Scene in Britanny.
Woman Combing Her Hair. (Femme se coiffant).
The Bathers. Detail.
The Bather (After the Bath).
The Daughters of Catulle Mendés.
Girl with a Basket of Oranges.
Portrait of a Girl.
Woman in a Red Blouse.
The Spring.
Landscape at Beaulieu (Paysage à Beaulieu).
Terrace at Cagnes.
The Toilette; Woman Combing Her Hair.
Madame Renoir with Bob.
Portrait of Madame Duberville with Her Son Henri.
The Rhone and the Seine.
Roses Before the Blue Curtain.
Sleeping Odalisque (Odalisque with Babouches).
The Bathers.
Frédéric Bazille at His Easel.
Alfred Sisley and His Wife.
Woman of Algiers.
Sailboats at Argenteuil.
Young Man Walking with Dogs in Fontainebleau Forest.
Lise.
Oarsmen at Chatou.
Mlle. Irène Cahen d'Anvers.
Portrait of Richard Wagner.
Dance at Bougival (Suzanne Valadon and Paul Lhote).
Country Dance (Aline Charigot and Paul Lhote).
Mother Nursing Her Child (Aline and Pierre).
Bather Arranging Her Hair.
The Great Bathers (The Nymphs).

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Portrait of Alphonsine Fournaise.

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