PIERRE RENOIR

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION

• Birthdate: February 25, 1841 in Limoges, France
• Parents: léonard renoir and marguerite merlet
• Education: entered Ecole des Beaux-arts in 1862
• Family: he was one lf six children his father was a tailor and his mother was as seemstress
• Art history: style was impressionism, he started as a teenager.

INFLUENCES

• Claude monet in his treatment of light
• Eugéne Delacroix a romantic painter
• Charles Gabriel Gleyre his are teacher

Pierre-Auguste Renoir used his wife and children as his models.

The main subject of his paintings were mainly about his life experiences and his surroundings

WELL KNOWN PAINTINGS

• "Girl with a water can" 1876
• "The luncheon of boating party" 1881
• "The umbrellas" 1883
• "Bathers" 1887
• "Bal au moulin de la galette montmarte" 1876

One of Renoirs paintings sold for $110,420,000