1841-1919

Examines the life and artwork of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, discussing how his artwork and artistic style went against the grain of his contemporary Parisian artists.

Describes the career of French painter Pierre Auguste Renoir, and presents and briefly discusses more than forty of his masterpieces.

Set against the backdrop of well-known works by the artist, Auguste Renoir, rhyming text tells a story from the artwork.

Briefly recounts the French painter's development, along with other fellow artists, of a new type of painting known as Impressionism.

Mid-nineteenth-century little person Mercy Levinia Warren Bump comes of age in the antebellum South before being invited to join the P.T. Barnum circus, through which she pursues limitless international opportunities.

Presents an introduction to French Impressionism, focusing on five artists, including Renoir, Monet, Degas, Pissarro, and Morisot, with excerpts from their letters and diaries, as well as critical interpretations of their lives and work.

Contains full color reproductions of ten paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir with actual size details designed to demonstrate the techniques the artist used to create his images.