Pierre-Auguste Renoir | An Introduction to Nineteenth Century Art

Works by this Artist

Working class: son of a tailor and a dressmaker

Apprenticed to porcelain painter M. Levy

With Charles Gleyre at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (1862-64, Paris)

Copies Old Master paintings in Louvre

1844 – moves with family to Paris

1862 – meets Claude Monet and Frédéric Bazille in Gleyre’s studio

1864 – first Paris Salon exhibition; Renoir exhibit there regularly

1867 – Salon rejects entries of Renoir, Monet, and Bazille

1870-71 – Serves in cavalry regiment during Franco-Prussian War

1873 – Salon rejects Riding in the Bois de Boulogne (Kunsthalle, Hamburg)

1874 – participates in First Impressionist Exhibition (also Second-1876 and Third-1877)

1878 – Renoir ceases exhibiting with the Impressionists for financial reasons and resumes exhibiting at the Salon

1879 – exhibits Mme Charpentier and her Children at Salon

1883 – solo exhibition at Paul Durand-Ruel’s gallery

1890s – Renoir moves about France (Provence, Essoyes, Brittany, Normandy); begins producing etchings and lithographs

1900 – awarded Légion d’honneur

Italy (1881-82); North Africa (1881-22); Jersey and Guernsey (1883)

Paul Berard; Paul Durand-Ruel; Georges Charpentier; Maurice Gangnat; Prince de Wagram; Ambroise Vollard

Inn of Mother Anthony, 1866 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)

La Grenouillère, 1869 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)

La Loge, 1874 (Courtauld Institute, London)

Mme Charpentier and Her Children, 1878 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1880-81 ( Phillips Collection, Washington, DC)

Frédéric Bazille painted Renoir’s portrait in 1867 (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Druick, Douglas W. Renoir. Exhibition catalogue. Art Institute of Chicago, 1997

Herbert, Robert. Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1988

Moffett, Charles S. The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874-1886. Exhibition catalogue. San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996

Rewald, John. The History of Impressionism. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1946

Thomson, Belinda. Impressionism: Origins, Practice, Reception. New York: Thames and Hudson, 2000

From 1897 to 1902 Renoir had an apartment in this building at 33 rue de la Rochefoucauld, Paris (9th arrondissement)

From 1897 to 1902 Renoir had a studio in this building at 64 rue La Rochefoucauld, Paris (9th arrondissement)

In 1886 Renoir lived in this building at 35 rue Rochechouart, Paris (11th arrondissement)

In 1866-67 Renoir shared an apartment with Bazille and Monet at 20 rue Visconti, Paris (6th arrondissement)