| Born in Limoges, France, Renoir moved to Paris as a boy with his family. He
was apprenticed as a porcelain painter before joining the Atelier Gleyre in
1862,
where he met Claude Monet, Frédéric Bazille, and Alfred Sisley.
With them, he was one of the founding members of the Société Anonyme
des Artistes, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc., later known as the “impressionists,” participating
in four of the group’s eight exhibitions.
Renoir is more famous for his charming figure pieces, but he painted landscapes
throughout his life. Like his impressionist colleagues, his views of the 1870s
focused on the suburbs of Paris. There they explored new subjects, broadly
painted in the bright hues characteristic of early impressionism. . . .
:: Laura Coyle, Art historian and Independent Curator |
Text excerpted from A Capital Collection: Masterworks from
the Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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