Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, also know by Auguste Renoir, was a Frenchman born on the 25th of February 1841 in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France (1). Renoir was born into a working class family to parents Léonard Renoir and Marguerite Merlet (2). He was Léonard and Marguerite's sixth child, two of his older siblings having died while still in infancy. In the years between 1844 and 1846 Renoir's family moved from Limoges to Paris, and in close proximity to the renowned art museum the…
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