|1841||Renoir is born in Limoges, France on February 25th. He is the sixth of seven children.|
|1845||The Renoir family moves from Limoges to Paris where Renoir begins attending a drawing school.|
|1860-2||An art student, Renoir receives permission to paint and draw in the Louvre Museum as well as to consult works on paper at the Bibliothèque nationale.|
|1861||Renoir studies as a pupil in the master studio of Swiss-born Charles Gleyre (1806-1874).|
|1862||Renoir is admitted to the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the premier art academy in Paris.|
|1863||Renoir again receives permission to study works at the Louvre. He begins to concentrate on large-scale figure paintings.|
|1864||Renoir exhibits at the Salon for the first time. The work shown is a painting called Esmérelda (inspired by Victor Hugo’s Notre-Dame de Paris).|
Renoir, Sisley and Jules Le Coeur rent a house in Marlotte, south-east of Paris, to be used as a meeting place for the three artists and their friends.
Two of Renoir’s paintings (one a portrait of Sisley’s father, the other a landscape (now lost) titled Soirée d’été are exhibited at the Salon.
|1867||The works of the future Impressionists (Renoir, Bazille, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Cézanne and Manet) are all rejected at the annual Salon.|
Renoir has one work (En été) accepted at the Salon.
While living with his parents in Voisins-Louveciennes, a suburb of Paris, Renoir frequently visits his friends Claude and Camille Monet. Renoir and Monet make several trips to nearby sites, including La Grenouillère, painting side by side.
Renoir has two works accepted at the Salon (a landscape with women and a painting of an Algerian woman).
Renoir is called to active military duty to fight in the Franco-Prussian War. During the next year, while still in service, he becomes ill with dysentery.
Renoir exhibits seven paintings in the first Impressionist Exhibition.
Renoir visits Monet in Argenteuil, a suburb of Paris, where he paints together with Monet and Manet.
|1875||Renoir paints city views of the neighborhood near his Paris studio, including Les Grands Boulevards.|
Renoir rents a house with a garden on the rue Cortot in the Montmartre section of Paris. The garden becomes the setting for many plein-air paintings including Garden in the rue Cortot, Montmartre.
Renoir exhibits 17 paintings and one pastel drawing in the second Impressionist Exhibition.
Renoir travels to Champrosay to visit the novelist and playwright Alphonse Daudet who commissions him to paint a portrait of his wife, Julia Allard Daudet. Renoir also paints The Seine at Champrosay during this visit.
|1877||The third Impressionist Exhibition is held. Renoir exhibits 21 works, including five landscapes. Two of these landscapes are identified as The Seine at Champrosay and Garden in the rue Cortot, Montmartre.|
|1878||Renoir’s painting Le Café is accepted at the Salon.|
The fourth Impressionist exhibition is held. Renoir and Sisley do not show any works in the exhibition.
Renoir has four works accepted to the Salon including Madame Charpentier and her Children which receives much acclaim.
A solo exhibition of Renoir’s works is shown in Paris.
The fifth Impressionist Exhibition is held. Renoir, Sisley, Monet and Cézanne do not participate.
Renoir has two works accepted at the Salon.
Art dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel begins to make regular purchases of Renoir’s paintings.
Renoir travels to Algeria and, later in the year, to Italy where he visits Venice, Padua, Florence, Rome, the Vatican, Naples, Pompeii, Sorrento, Calabria and Capri. He paints many landscapes during his travels. Renoir also travels within France to Chatou, Dieppe and Wargemont.
The sixth Impressionist Exhibition is held. Renoir, Monet and Sisley do not exhibit.
Renoir exhibits two portraits at the Salon.
Renoir wraps up his trip to Italy with visits to Monreale, Palermo and another visit to Naples. On his return to France, Renoir stops in L’Estaque where he visits Cézanne and paints several landscapes.
Renoir writes to his dealer, Durand-Ruel, to express his refusal to participate in the seventh Impres