19 Facts About Renoir

Renoir was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir, son of Pierre.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, in 1841.

Renoir's talent was encouraged by his teacher, Charles Gounod, who was the choirmaster at the Church of St Roch at the time.

However, due to the family's financial circumstances, Renoir had to discontinue his music lessons and leave school at the age of thirteen to pursue an apprenticeship at a porcelain factory.

Renoir had his first success at the Salon of 1868 with his painting Lise with a Parasol, which depicted Lise Trehot, his lover at the time.

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In 1874, a ten-year friendship with Jules Le Cœur and his family ended, and Renoir lost not only the valuable support gained by the association but a generous welcome to stay on their property near Fontainebleau and its scenic forest.

Renoir was inspired by the style and subject matter of previous modern painters Camille Pissarro and Edouard Manet.

Renoir contributed a more diverse range of paintings the next year when the group presented its third exhibition; they included Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette and The Swing.

Renoir did not exhibit in the fourth or fifth Impressionist exhibitions, and instead resumed submitting his works to the Salon.

On 15 January 1882, Renoir met the composer Richard Wagner at his home in Palermo, Sicily.

In 1883, Renoir spent the summer in Guernsey, one of the islands in the English Channel with a varied landscape of beaches, cliffs, and bays, where he created fifteen paintings in little over a month.

In 1887, the year when Queen Victoria celebrated her Golden Jubilee, and upon the request of the queen's associate, Phillip Richbourg, Renoir donated several paintings to the "French Impressionist Paintings" catalog as a token of his loyalty.

Renoir painted during the last twenty years of his life even after his arthritis severely limited his mobility.

Renoir developed progressive deformities in his hands and ankylosis of his right shoulder, requiring him to change his painting technique.

In 1919, Renoir visited the Louvre to see his paintings hanging with those of the old masters.

Renoir's paintings are notable for their vibrant light and saturated color, most often focusing on people in intimate and candid compositions.

Renoir admired the realism of Gustave Courbet and Edouard Manet, and his early work resembles theirs in his use of black as a color.

The warm sensuality of Renoir's style made his paintings some of the most well-known and frequently reproduced works in the history of art.

Five-volume catalogue raisonne of Renoir's works was published by Bernheim-Jeune between 1983 and 2014.