''Mother and Children'' (also known as ''La Promenade'') is an

Impressionist Impressionism was a 19th-century art movement characterized by visible brush strokes, open Composition (visual arts), composition, emphasis on accurate depiction of light in its changing qualities (often accentuating the effects of the passage ...

painting by

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; ; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French people, French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionism, Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially femininity, fe ...

that is housed in the

Frick Collection The Frick Collection (colloquially known as the Frick) is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was established in 1935 to preserve the collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick. The collection (museum) ...

. Although the painting is most commonly known as ''Mother and Children'', Renoir presented it with the title ''La Promenade'' in 1876. The painting is displayed in an alcove under a set of stairs at the Frick.

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* * {{Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1876 paintings Paintings in the Frick Collection Portraits of women Paintings of children

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