"I am cautiously optimistic based on my extensive research and the provenance linking it to the esteemed Madeira family of Philadelphia ... is thought to be a portrait of Renoir's wife Aline ...

Renoir’s later portraits make little attempt to analyze the sitter’s personality. What most interested him was technique—specifically that of Rubens, whose skill with pigments he had admired.

A Pennsylvania woman paid $12 for artwork that could be an original piece by French impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

In 1896, Renoir memorialized the serenity, domestic bliss and financial success of those years in a life-size group portrait, ...

“If authenticated, the drawing could join Renoir’s intimate portraits of Chariot, whose voluptuous figure famously inspired The Bathers. It rests in a climate-controlled safe, its $12 price tag still ...