Pierre Auguste Renoir

Renoir was born in Limoges of modest birth, one of seven children and the son of a a tailor. When he was three his family moved to Paris where he haunted the Louvre from boyhood. Renoir did not receive formal training as a youth and began his artistic career as a decorator of porcelain and fans. He spent much time in the forest of Fontainebleau and was greatly influenced by Manet and Delacroix. He painted the life that unceasingly fascinated him. Typical of Renoir are effects of glancing the light that partially disperse into shadow. An an Impressionist, he was a painter obsessed with the sense of touch and how light touched his subjects. In 1881 he journeyed to Italy to further his studies with the use of light, painting in full sunlight. In 1903, he moved to the South of France and settled, continuing his work in the plein-air technique. There he lived out his days painting women as myths of the natural world with images magnificent yet commonplace, and all of them gloriously alive. Renoir died in Cagnes on December 3, 1919.

Pierre Auguste Renoir Images:
A Girl with a Fan
A Girl with a Watering Can
At the Milliners
At the Theater
A Young Girl with Flowers
Boating on the Seine
Bouquet of Roses in a Blue Vase
Bridge at Chatou
Chestnut Tree in Bloom
Country Dance
Dance at Bougival
Dance at the Moulin de la Galette
Dance in the City, 1883 (La Danse A La Ville)
Dance in the Country
Dance in the Country (La Danse A La Campagne)
Environs De Cagnes
Flowers in a Vase
Gerbes de Fleurs
Girl With A Watering Can,1876
Girl With Fan
Girl with Hoop
Girl With Watering Can
Girls Picking Flowers
Grand Canal, Venice
In The Meadow
Jean Renoir
Lady Sewing
La Grenouillere
Landscape on the Coast, near Menton
La Parisienne
Le Moulin De La Galette A Montmartre
Le Pont Des Arts,c.1868
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Luncheon Of The Boating Party,1881
Mademoiselle Irene
Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot
Monet Painting in His Garden
Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteul
Oarsman At Chateau
Oarsmen at Chatou
On the Terrace
On The Terrace,1881
Orsman at Chatou
Pensive (La Songeuse)
Picking Flowers
Pont Neuf, Paris
Port de la Rochelle
Roses Dans Une Fenetre
Roses,1879
Spring Bouquet, 1866
Suzanne Valadon
The Bathers
The Esterel Mountains
The Garden in Rue Cortot
The Greenhouse
The Outskirts of Pont-Aven
The Seine at Argenteuil
The Seine at Chatou
Tulips in a Vase
Two Girls at the Piano
Two Girls At The Piano,c.1883
Two Seated Young Girls
Two Sisters (On The Terrace)
Two Sisters (On the Terrace).
Umbrellas
Vase De Fleurs
Vase of Chrysanthemums
Woman with a Parasol and a Small Child on a Sunlit Hillside
Young Girl Reading