Pierre Auguste Renoir
Renoir
Portait of artist
La Grenouillere
1896
oil painting on canvas
national museum, Stockholm
Pierre Auguste Renoir Timeline
February 25 1841 Pierre Auguste Renoir is born in France
1844 Renoir moves to France
1854 Renoir begins as a porcelain painter
1862 Renoir studies art under Charles Gleyre in Paris
1864 Renoir won acceptance into the annual Paris Salon exhibit
1867 Renoir met Lise Trehot who became his model
1870 Renoir took a brake to serve in the war against Germany
1874 Renoir and some of his friends decided to start their own first impressionist exhibit
1878 Renoir's painting of " Madame Charpentier and her Children" gained much admiration from critics.
1880 made several inspirational journeys
1890 Renoir married his girlfriend Aline Charigot
1885 they had their first son named Pierre
1890's Renoir battled with rheumatism which plagued him for the rest of his life
1907 Renoir bought a home in Cagnus-ser-Mer for his family
1912 Renoir had a stroke and was left in a wheel chair
1919 Renoir died but still saw all his great works being exhibited and bought. he was buried next to his wife Aline who died in 1915