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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1841 - 1919

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; French: [pjɛʁ oɡyst ʁənwaʁ]; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. It has been said that, as a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau." He was the father of the actor Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), the filmmaker Jean Renoir (1894–1979) and the ceramic artist Claude Renoir (1901–1969). He was the grandfather of the filmmaker Claude Renoir (1913–1993), son of Pierre. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pierre-Auguste Renoir is the 18th most popular painter (up from 35th in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from France (up from 77th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Painter.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir is most famous for his paintings of people.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Pierre-Auguste Renoir ranks 18 out of 2,023. Before him are Francisco Goya, Johannes Vermeer, Sandro Botticelli, Edvard Munch, Diego Velázquez, and Henri Matisse. After him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Paul Cézanne, Paul Gauguin, Giotto, Donatello, and Titian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1841, Pierre-Auguste Renoir ranks 2. Before him is Edward VII. After him are Antonín Dvořák, Gustave Le Bon, Berthe Morisot, Nicholas I of Montenegro, Georges Clemenceau, Maria Sophie of Bavaria, Itō Hirobumi, Otto Wagner, Emil Theodor Kocher, and Frédéric Bazille. Among people deceased in 1919, Pierre-Auguste Renoir ranks 1. After him are Rosa Luxemburg, John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh, Emil Fischer, Theodore Roosevelt, Ernst Haeckel, Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Alfred Werner, Gojong of Korea, Karl Liebknecht, Archduke Ludwig Viktor of Austria, and Emiliano Zapata.

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In France

Among people born in France, Pierre-Auguste Renoir ranks 28 out of 6,770. Before him are Honoré de Balzac (1799), Henri Matisse (1869), Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), Caracalla (188), Édith Piaf (1915), and Antoine Lavoisier (1743). After him are Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor (1122), Alain Delon (1935), Auguste Comte (1798), Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), and Coco Chanel (1883).

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Among PAINTERS In France

Among painters born in France, Pierre-Auguste Renoir ranks 3. Before him are Claude Monet (1840), and Henri Matisse (1869). After him are Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres (1780), Paul Cézanne (1839), Paul Gauguin (1848), Édouard Manet (1832), Eugène Delacroix (1798), Edgar Degas (1834), Jacques-Louis David (1748), Gustave Courbet (1819), and Nicolas Poussin (1594).

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