Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was a French artist of the Impressionist style.
Some of his more recognizable paintings include Two Sisters (On the Terrace), The Blue Lady, Girls at the Piano, Dance at Bougival, and Luncheon of the Boating Party.
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- During a bridge in "Happiness Hotel" from The Great Muppet Caper, Zoot explains that Animal is upset because he missed the Rembrandt exhibit at the National Gallery. Animal corrects him, shouting "Renoir!"
- The "Mothers and Children" montage in Don't Eat the Pictures features Madame Georges Charpentier and her Children.
- Kermit and Piggy plan to attend a formal unveiling of an art gallery's new acquisition of a Renoir painting in the August 24, 1983 The Muppets comic strip.
- Baby Animal plays Pierre-Animal Renoir in the Muppet Babies episode "The Muppet Museum of Art", but his backdrop is actually In the Woods at Giverny: Blanche Hoschedé at Her Easel with Suzanne Hoschedé Reading by Claude Monet. Piggy leaves the scene walking in front of Renoir's Grape Pickers at Lunch.
- Renoir's painting Dance in the Country was spoofed with Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy in the Muppet Art: 1999 Calendar.
- Renoir's 1892 painting Girls at the Piano was spoofed with Prairie Dawn and Betty Lou in the 1991 coloring book Museum of Monster Art.
- An animated Sesame Street segment, features two children admiring the Renoir piece Boating on the Seine.
- Animal again shows appreciation for Renoir in the 2018 Muppet Babies episode "You Ought to Be in Pictures". When Miss Nanny takes the babies to the museum, Animal gets excited about Renoir and Nanny replies that she knows he's his favorite artist. Later, Animal can be seen admiring his 1876 painting Bal du moulin de la Galette.