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 Impressionist Exhibition.
The seventh Impressionist Exhibition is held. Durand-Ruel submits 25 paintings by Renoir (including ten landscapes) against the artist’s wishes.
Renoir makes a second trip to Algeria.
A portrait by Renoir is exhibited in the Salon.
Renoir makes a lengthy trip to visit friends, including Monet, in the region of Normandy. During his visit he paints many landscapes and views of the sea.
An exhibition of 70 paintings by Renoir is held at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris. Later the same year nine of Renoir’s paintings are among the Impressionist works shown in an exhibition in London.
Renoir travels to the British islands of Jersey and Guernsey in the English Channel. Renoir makes about 15 paintings on this trip including several seascapes.
Renoir and Monet travel together along the French and Italian Riviera, painting and sketching. The artists also pay a visit to their friend Cézanne.
|1885||Aline Charigot, Renoir’s companion, gives birth to son Pierre (who becomes a famous stage and film actor).|
An exhibition of works by Renoir is shown at the Durand-Ruel Gallery in New York City.
Eighth and final Impressionist Exhibition is held. Again, Renoir does not participate.
|1888||An attack of rheumatoid arthritis paralyzes part of Renoir’s face.|
Renoir marries Aline Charigot, his long time companion and model for many of his paintings since 1879.
Renoir exhibits a painting at the Salon. It will be his final appearance.
|1892||A large retrospective of Renoir is shown at the Galerie Durand-Ruel in Paris.|
|1894||Aline gives birth to a second son Jean (who becomes a film director).|
Renoir is awarded the Legion of Honor medal, the highest award given by France, for service to his country.
A major exhibition of Renoir’s works is shown in New York City.
|1901||Aline gives birth to a third son Claude (who becomes a cinematographer).|
|1904||Renoir moves from Paris to the French Riviera.|
|1910||Renoir uses a wheelchair at all times because of severe arthritis. He continues to paint using brushes tied to hi