Renoir and the warmth of painted light
Nineteen hand-painted oil reproductions after Pierre-Auguste Renoir: the dappled sunlight of riverside lunches, dancers mid-turn, girls with parasols, still lifes of roses, and portraits built from soft, broken colour. Each canvas is painted to order by a university-trained artist in the size and finish you choose, with free delivery Australia-wide. Allow 21 to 28 days.
- 100% hand-painted oil on canvas
- Painted to order in your size, framed or stretched
- Free delivery Australia-wide, 21 to 28 days
- 30-day money-back guarantee
- Rated 4.81/5 from 549 reviews
All 19 Renoir oil paintings
Every print is made to order. Stretched ready to hang, or with a floating frame. 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Renoir | The Luncheon of the Boating Party -
Renoir | Le Moulin de la Galette -
Renoir | The Theater Box -
Renoir | By the Water -
Renoir | City Dance -
Renoir | The Walk -
Renoir | The Umbrellas -
Renoir | The Swing -
Renoir | The Bathers -
Renoir | St. Mark's Square, Venice -
Renoir | Seated Bather -
Renoir | Two Sisters (On the Terrace) -
Renoir | After the Bath -
Renoir | Bathers -
Renoir | The Luncheon of the Boating Party II -
Renoir | Oarsmen at Chateaux -
Renoir | Gabrielle with a Rose -
Renoir | Girls at the Piano -
Renoir | A Girl With a Water Can
Why Renoir
Renoir's colour only works when the brushwork is actually there
His pictures are built from thousands of small broken strokes, so a flat printed copy loses the exact thing that makes them glow.
Stand close to a real Renoir and the skin is not pink, it is twenty colours sitting side by side. That is why his work suffers more than most in reproduction: flatten the surface and the light goes out of it. A hand-painted oil keeps the loaded strokes and the ridges of paint, so the canvas shifts as you walk past it and picks up whatever warm light the room has.
Renoir likes warm walls. On cool grey or stark white, the pinks and ochres can look sugary; on cream, clay, soft green or timber panelling they settle immediately. Go larger than feels safe with the group scenes, 100 x 75 cm and up, because the figures need room to read. Portraits and still lifes work smaller, hung low at eye level where you can see the paint. A plain gold or dark timber frame suits them; thin black does not.
How your painting is made
- Choose the size and finishSeven standard sizes from 60 × 50cm to 200 × 135cm. Stretched ready to hang, rolled, or one of our frames. The size guide on every painting shows it to scale.
- Painted to order, by handA university-trained artist paints your piece in oils on canvas, working from the original. Two to three weeks at the easel, then drying time.
- Stretched, framed, checkedGallery-wrapped or framed in our workshop, then photographed and checked before it leaves.
- Delivered free, Australia-wideMade to order in 21 to 28 days, then tracked to your door. Thirty-day money-back guarantee if it isn't what you hoped.
Questions people ask
Is this a print or a real painting?
A real painting. Every piece is hand-painted in oils on canvas by a professional artist. Nothing here is printed, and nothing is a print with paint dabbed on top.
How close is it to the original?
Very. Our artists work from high-resolution references of the original and match composition, colour and brushwork. Because it is painted by hand, no two are identical, which is rather the point.
What sizes can I order?
Seven standard sizes, from 60 × 50cm up to 200 × 135cm, and custom sizes on request. Open the size guide on any painting to see each size to scale next to a sofa.
Framed or unframed?
Your choice at checkout: stretched and ready to hang, rolled in a tube, or framed in floating, classic or ornate frames. A floating frame adds a few centimetres each side; an ornate frame adds roughly 8 to 12cm.
How long does it take?
21 to 28 days, because it is painted to order. Delivery is free and tracked anywhere in Australia.
What if I don't love it?
Thirty-day money-back guarantee. Tell us within thirty days of delivery and we will make it right or refund you.
Famous Artists · Impressionism
25 February 1841, Limoges — 3 December 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer
Nobody painted happiness better — sunlight, friends and the glow of a long afternoon. Every painting below is 100% hand-painted in oils on canvas, from $299 with free delivery Australia-wide.
About Renoir & our reproductions
The life
Renoir began as a porcelain painter's apprentice, decorating fans in the style of Watteau, Fragonard and Boucher — and that immense skill and ability to convey charm remained entirely undiminished all his life. Uncompromisingly, he painted what pleased him: dances, luncheons, children and bathers, all bathed in the warm, feathered light that made him Impressionism's great painter of people.
By 1881, the year he turned forty and began travelling around Europe and North Africa, Renoir knew it was time for a reassessment. He decided that colour was to be the servant, not the master, and turned to firmer drawing and more carefully judged tonal form. Though crippled by arthritis in his later years, he painted on until his death of a heart attack at Cagnes-sur-Mer in 1919.
Our reproductions
Every Renoir reproduction at Direct Art Australia is 100% hand-painted in oils on artist canvas by professional artists — never a print. His feathery, blended strokes and rosy light are recreated with soft, loaded brushes. Delivery is free Australia-wide.
Can’t find the Renoir work you’re after? We can hand-paint any of his works on request — just ask for a quote.