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Pierre Auguste Renoir, photograph

1841: Born on 25 February into the family of the Limoges tailor Léonard Renoir.

1844: Renoir’s family moves to Paris.

1848–1854: Goes to school and sings in the choir of Saint-Eustache, where Charles Gounod was choir-master.

1854: Works in the porcelain-painting workshop of the Lévy brothers.

1858: Copies Watteau, Fragonard and other masters of the past in the Louvre.

1862: Enters the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Studies at Charles Gleyre’s studio. Meets Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, Frédéric Bazille.

1863: Leaves Gleyre’s studio.

1864: Exhibits the painting Esmeralda at the Salon.

1866: Completes his first large painting At the Inn of the Mother Anthony.

1870–1871: On the declaration of the Franco-Prussian War, Renoir is drafted as a common soldier.

1872: Meets Paul Durand-Ruel. Exhibits his painting Parisiennes Dressed as Algerian Women at the Salon.

1873: Exhibits Riders in the Bois de Boulogne at the Salon des Refusés.

1874: Exhibits 1 pastel and 6 paintings at the First Impressionist Exhibition.

1876: Exhibits 15 paintings at the Second Impressionist Exhibition. Paints Garden in the Rue Cortot, Montmartre, Nude, The Ball at the Moulin de la Galette.

1877: Exhibits 21 paintings, including Portrait of Jeanne Samary, at the Third Impressionist Exhibition.

1879: Exhibits Portrait of Madame Charpentier with Her Children and Portrait of Jeanne Samary.

First one-man show at the gallery of the magazine La Vie Moderne.

1880: Meets Aline Charigot.

1881: Journeys to Algeria and Italy. Paints The Luncheon of the Boating Party.

1883: Retrospective exhibition (70 works) on the Boulevard de la Madeleine.

1885: Birth of son Pierre. Paints portraits of Senator Goujon’s children.

1886: Durand-Ruel arranges an exhibition of 39 paintings and pastels by Renoir in New York.

1887: Completes The Great Bathers.

1892: Retrospective exhibition at the Galerie Durand-Ruel (110 works).

1894: Birth of son Jean.

1901: Birth of son Claude.

1915: Aline Renoir dies in Nice.

1919: Pierre-Auguste Renoir dies on 3 December in Cagnes-sur-Mer.

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