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Pierre-Auguste Renoir born on February 25 in Limoges, France
Renoir’s father Leonard was a tailor. Renoir had five brothers. -
The Renoir family moved to Paris
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Renoir quits school and becomes an apprentice
Apprentice with a porcelain-painting company, Lévy Freres -
Renoir starts copying paintings in the Louvre
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Passed his exams to enter the Ecole des Beaux-Arts
Renoir joins the independent studio of Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre (1806-1874) where he meets Sisley, Monet, and Bazille. -
A Renoir painting is accepted for exhibition at the Salon de Paris
Renoir destroys it after it is shown. -
Renoir’s Diana and Women in the Garden rejected by the Salon de Paris
Renoir’s Diana (oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC) and Women in the Garden (oil on canvas, private collection) -
Salon de Paris accepts Renoir’s Portrait of Lise
Salon de Paris accepts Renoir’s Portrait of Lise (painted in 1867; oil on canvas, 184 x 185 cm; Essen Folkwang Museum, Germany). The subject was Lise Trehot, Renoir’s favorite model from 1865 to 1872. -
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Meets influential art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel
Renoir meets influential art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922) who buys Renoir’s painting le Pont des Arts. Renoir paints with Claude Monet. Renoir helps to organize the first Impressionist Exhibition of 1874. -
Meets Aline Charigot, whom Renoir later marries
She was dressmaker, born on May 23, 1854 (twenty years younger than Renoir). Her father was a wine grower in the Champagne region. -
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Paints Luncheon of the Boating Party
Paints Luncheon of the Boating Party (oil on canvas, 130 x 173 cm) Phillips Collection, Washington, DC. It depicts his fiancée Aline Charigot and many of his circle at the Restaurant Fournaise. -
Renoir’s first journey to Algeria
Renoir also visits Rome, Venice, Naples, Florence, Capri, Pompeii, and other sites on the Italian peninsula. -
Paints Dance in the Town
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, depicting Suzanne Valadon, herself and painter, with Renoir’s friend Paul Lhote. -
Pierre, Renoir’s first son is born
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Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
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Renoir marries Aline Charigot
She bore him three children and frequently modeled for him, important examples: “Luncheon of the Boating Party,” (1881), Phillips, Washington, D.C; “Country Dance,” (1883), Musee d’Orsay, Paris. -
Renoir’s painting At the Piano bought by the government of France
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Birth of Renoir’s second son, Jean
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French government awards Renoir the Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur
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Birth of Claude (CoCo) Renoir
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Renoir’s arthritis worsens
Crippling him -
Maurice Gangnat, steel magnate, buys twelve Renoir paintings
Renoir moves to “Les Collettes,” at Cagnes-sur-Mer; 15 km west of Nice. -
Aline, Renoir’s wife dies
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Paints a portrait of the steel multi-millionaire Maurice Gangnat
By this time, Gangnat owned 180 paintings by Renoir. Only four were sold at the sale of Gangnat’s estate on 25 June 1925 at Hôtel Drouot. -
Dies at “Les Collettes”
