Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges and brought up in Paris, where his father, a tailor with a large family, settled in 1845. From the age of thirteen he worked as an apprentice painter, painting flowers on porcelain plates. This early apprenticeship left a certain trace on his art, which was always decorative in spite of its later realism. After machines for coloring ceramics had been introduced, he had to switch to decorating fans and screens. Having saved some money, in 1862 Renoir entered the Atelier Gleyre and there made friends with Monet, Sisley and Bazille; some time later he met Pissarro and Cézanne.
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	Little Miss Romaine Lacaux. 1864. Oil on canvas. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, USA.
	Arum and Conservatory Plants. 1864. Oil on canvas. Sammlung Oskar Reinhart, Winterthur, Switzerland.
	Portrait of William Sisley. 1864. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
	Portrait of Mademoiselle Sicot. 1865. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	At the Inn of Mother Anthony. 1866. Oil on canvas. National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden.
	Young Man Walking with Dogs in Fontainebleau Forest. 1866. Oil on canvas. Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.
	Woman Standing by a Tree. 1866. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Woman in a Boat. 1867. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Paris, France.
	Diana. 1867. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA. Read Note.
	Lise. 1867. Oil on canvas. Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany. Read Note.
	Frédéric Bazille at His Easel. 1867. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France. Read Note.
	The Pont des Arts, Paris. 1867. Oil on canvas. Norton Simon Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
	Alfred Sisley and His Wife. 1868. Oil on canvas. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany.
	Clown. 1868. Oil on canvas. Kroller-Muller State Museum, Oterlo, the Netherlands.
	In the Summer. 1868. Oil on canvas. Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany. Read Note.
	A Boy with a Cat. 1868-69. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	La Grenouillère. 1869. Oil on canvas. The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia. Read Note.
	La Grenouillère. 1869. Oil on canvas. National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden. Read Note.
	Barges on the Seine. 1869. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Portrait of Mme. Théodore Charpentier. c.1869. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Flowers in a Vase. 1869. Oil on canvas. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, USA.
	Woman of Algiers. 1870. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA. Read Note.
	The Promenade. 1870. Oil on canvas. British Rail Pension Fund, UK.
	Woman in a Park. 1870. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Head of a Dog. 1870. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	Bather (La Baigneuse au griffon). 1870. Oil on canvas. Museu de Arte de Sao Paolo Assis Chateaubriand Sao Paolo, Brazil.
	Mme. Monet Reading "Le Figaro". 1872. Oil on canvas. Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal.
	The Gust of Wind. c.1872. Oil on canvas. Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK.
	Pont Neuf, Paris. 1872. Oil on canvas. The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA.
	A Morning Ride in the Bois de Boulogne. 1873. Oil on canvas. Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany.
	View of Argenteuil. 1873. Oil on canvas. Louvre, Paris, France.
	The Seine at Argenteuil. 1873. Oil on canvas. Portland Museum of Art, Main, USA.
	Portrait of Mme. Darras. c.1873. Oil on canvas. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France.
	Bust of a Woman, also called Before the Bath or The Toilet. c. 1873-75. Oil on canvas. Barnes Foundation, Lincoln University, Merion, PA, USA.
	Sailboats at Argenteuil. 1874. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Paris, France.

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