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''At the Theatre (La Première Sortie)'', also known as ''The First Outing'', is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "R ...
, created around 1876–1877. It was acquired by the
National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...
in 1923. It shows two beautiful young women in what appears to be an opera box, looking down into the audience in the box below them.Walther, Ingo F. (1999)
Masterpieces of Western Art
A history of art in 900 individual studies. Volume II. Impressionism, Art Nouveau and Jugendstil (1860-1910). Taschen. p. 502. Along with '' The Small Theater Box'' (1873-74) and ''
La Loge ''La Loge'' ('The Theatre Box') is an 1874 oil painting by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. It is part of the collection at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Vegelin van Claerbergen, Ernst; Wright, Barnaby, eds. (2008). ''Renoir at the theatre: lo ...
'' (1874), it is one of three paintings of a theatre box by Renoir, a then contemporary theme for Parisian fashion.


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Renoir - Die kleine Loge, Um 1873-74.jpg, ''The Small Theater Box'' (1873-74) La Loge de P.-A. Renoir (Fondation Vuitton, Paris) (46499625955).jpg, ''La Loge'' (1874)


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List of paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir This is an incomplete list of paintings by Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Renoir painted about 4000 paintings that have sold at auction for as much as $78.1 million (in 1990). The largest collection of Renoir paintings is at the Barn ...


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National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...
. 1877 paintings Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in the National Gallery, London {{19C-painting-stub