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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges on 25 February 1841. In 1854, the boy’s parents took him from school and found a place for him in the Lévy brothers’ workshop, where he was to learn to paint porcelain. Renoir’s younger brother Edmond had this to say this about the move: “From what he drew in charcoal on the walls, they concluded that he had the ability for an artist’s profession. That was how our parents came to put him to learn the trade of porcelain painter.” One of the Lévys’ workers, Emile Laporte, painted in oils in his spare time. He suggested Renoir makes use of his canvases and paints. This offer resulted in the appearance of the first painting by the future impressionist. In 1862 Renoir passed the examinations and entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and, simultaneously, one of the independent studios, where instruction was given by Charles Gleyre, a professor at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. The second, perhaps even the first, great event of this period in Renoir’s life was his meeting, in Gleyre’s studio, with those who were to become his best friends for the rest of his days and who shared his ideas about art. Much later, when he was already a mature artist, Renoir had the opportunity to see works by Rembrandt in Holland, Velázquez, Goya and El Greco in Spain, and Raphael in Italy. However, Renoir lived and breathed ideas of a new kind of art. He always found his inspirations in the Louvre. “For me, in the Gleyre era, the Louvre was Delacroix,” he confessed to Jean. For Renoir, the First Impressionist Exhibition was the moment his vision of art and the artist was affirmed. This period in Renoir’s life was marked by one further significant event. In 1873 he moved to Montmartre, to the house at 35 Rue Saint-Georges, where he lived until 1884. Renoir remained loyal to Montmartre for the rest of his life. Here he found his “plein-air” subjects, his models and even his family. It was in the 1870s that Renoir acquired the friends who would stay with him for the remainder of his days. One of them was the art-dealer Paul Durand-Ruel, who began to buy his paintings in 1872. In summer, Renoir continued to paint a great deal outdoors together with Monet. He would travel out to Argenteuil, where Monet rented a house for his family. Edouard Manet sometimes worked with them too. In 1877, at the Third Impressionist Exhibition, Renoir presented a panorama of over twenty paintings. They included landscapes created in Paris, on the Seine, outside the city and in Claude Monet’s garden; studies of women’s heads and bouquets of flowers; portraits of Sisley, the actress Jeanne Samary, the writer Alphonse Daudet and the politician Spuller; and also The Swing and The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette. Finally, in the 1880s Renoir hit a “winning streak”. He was commissioned by rich financiers, the owner of the Grands Magasins du Louvre and Senator Goujon. His paintings were exhibited in London and Brussels, as well as at the Seventh International Exhibition held at Georges Petit’s in Paris in 1886. In a letter to Durand-Ruel, then in New York, Renoir wrote: “The Petit exhibition has opened and is not doing badly, so they say. After all, it’s so hard to judge about yourself. I think I have managed to take a step forward towards public respect. A small step, but even that is something.”
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Table of contents
1Introduction
63Lady with a Fan, 1881
2Pierre Auguste Renoir, photograph
64Girls in Black, 1881
3Biography
65Banana Plantation, 1881
4Portrait of the Artist’s Mother, 1860
66Arab Holiday, 1881
5Jules Le Cœur Walking in the Fontainebleau Forest with his Dogs, 1866
67Fruits of the Midi, 1881
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6At the Inn of the Mother Anthony, 1866
68Mother and Child, 1881
7Flowers in a Vase, 1866
69Blond Bather, 1881
8Frédéric Bazille at His Easel, 1867
70Umbrellas, 1881-1885
9Snowy Landscape, 1868
71Portrait of Charles and Georges Durand-Ruel, 1882
10Bathing on the Seine (La Grenouillère), 1868
72Portrait of an Unknown Woman, 1882
11Léonard Renoir, the Artist’s Father, 1869
73Miss Marie-Therese Durand-Ruel Sowing, 1882
12La Grenouillère, 1869
74Nude Woman in a Landscape, 1883
13Flowers in a Vase, c.1869
75The Dance at Bougival, 1883
14Bather with a Griffon, 1870
76Dance in the City, 1883
15Algerian Woman, 1870
77Dance in the Country, 1883
16The Algerian (Madame Clémentine Stora in an Algerian Costume), 1870
78Seascape, Guernesey, 1883
17Promenade, 1870
79Portrait of Misia Sert, 1907
18Lise Wearing a White Shawl, 1872
80The Braid (Suzanne Valadon), 1884-1886
19Portrait of Claude Monet, 1872
81Aline Charigot (Madame Renoir), c.1885
20Monet Painting in His Garden in Argenteuil, 1873
82A Child with a Whip, 1885
21Young Girl Reading a Magazine, c.1873
83La Coiffeuse (Bather Arranging her Hair), 1885
22La Loge, 1874
84Girls with Umbrellas, c.1886
23Serving Girl from Duval, 1874
85Maternity (The Child Breastfed) third version, 1886
24Parisian Woman, 1874
86The Great Bathers, c.1887
25The Reading of the Part, 1874-1876
87Head of a Woman, 1887
26Portrait of Claude Monet, 1875
88Little Girl with a Sheaf, 1888
27Nude in the Sunlight, Study, 1875
89The Washerwomen, c.1888
28A Loving Couple, c.1875
90Young Woman Bathing, 1888
29Girl Reading, 1875-76
91Young Girl with Daisies, 1889
30Woman with Cat, c.1875
92Roses, 1890
31Portrait of Alfred Sisley, c.1875
93Young Girls at the Piano, 1892
32Studio in the Rue Saint-Georges, 1876-1877
94Mother and Child (Gabrielle and Jean), 1895
33Self-Portrait, c.1876
95Gabrielle and Jean, 1895
34Garden in the Rue Cortot, Montmartre, 1876
96Bather with Long Hair, c.1895
35The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette, 1876
97The Artist’s Family, 1896
36Young Woman with a Veil, 1876
98Woman Playing Guitar, 1896-1897
37The Swing, 1876
99Yvonne and Chistine Lerolle at the Piano, 1897
38Woman in Black, 1876
100The Sleeper, 1897
39Nude, 1876
101Portrait of Madame Bernheim, 1901
40Portrait of Madame Charpentier, 1876-1877
102Landscape (Le Cannet), 1902
41Little Girl with a Watering Can, 1876
103Claude and Renée, 1903
42Thought, 1876-1877
104Claude Renoir Playing, 1905
43The First Outing, c.1876
105The Children’s Afternoon at Wargemont, 1884
44Riders in the Bois de Boulogne, 1873
106Nude on Cushions, 1907
45Leaving the Conservatory, 1877
107The Clown (Claude Renoir), 1909
46Jeanne Samary, 1877
108The Bather, c.1909
47Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary, 1877
109Female Dancer with a Tambourine, 1909
48Portrait of Madame Charpentier with Her Children, 1878
110Female Dancer with Castanets, 1909
49Portrait of Margot, 1878
111An Ode to Flowers, 1909
50Portrait of the Actress Jeanne Samary, 1878
112Reclining Nude, 1909
51Girls under Umbrellas, c.1879
113Gabrielle with Jewellery, 1910
52Alphonsine Fournaise, 1879
114Monsieur and Madame Bernheim de Villers, 1910
53The End of the Luncheon, 1879
115The Bather Wiping her Leg, c.1910
54Young Woman Sewing, c.1879
116Gabrielle with the Rose, 1911
55The Luncheon of the Boating Party, c.1880
117Woman gathering Flowers in the Garden of “Les Collettes”, 1912
56La Place Clichy, c.1880
118The Judgement of Paris, c.1913-1914
57Head of a Woman, 1880
119The Farm “Les Collettes”, 1915
58The Boating Party in Chatou, 1879
120Jean Renoir Embroidering
59Woman with a Straw Hat (Alphonsine Fournaise), 1880
121Portrait of Aristide Maillol
60Girl with a Fan, 1880
122Young Girl with a Hawk, 1880
61A Woman’s Bust, Yellow Corsage, c.1883
123Lady with a Muff
62Young Girl with a Cat, 1880
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