Pierre-Auguste Renoir born on 25 February 1841 in Limoges, France. The sixth child of Taylor Leonard Renoir. In1844 the Renoir family moved to Paris.

  In 1854 Renoir begin his apprenticeship as a porcelain painter at Lévy Frères, who went bankrupt in 1858. Soon after that Renoir decided to become a full-time painter.

On January 24 1860 Renoir was granted consent to replica in the Louvre, and continued for the next four years. At this time Renoir had a taste for eighteenth-century masters, including Boucher's Bath of Diana which he adored all his life.

  In 1861 Renoir begun attending the studio of Charles Gleyer, a Swiss teacher in Paris who gave schooling to a number of now famous artists. Then  Renoir enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and he was there in April 1862 for a couple of year. In 1863 Renoir may have submitted a work to the Paris Salon, it's believed the jury refused it. However the following year Renoir had his first success with a painting entitled Esmeralda Dancing with her Goat around a Fire Illuminating the Entire Crowd of Vagabonds, which he destroyed after the exhibition.

At the Gleyre's studio Renoir worked with other young artists with whom he had become friends and together with them he would form the Impressionist artist: Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Frédéric Bazille. Others like Manet, Pissarro, Cézanne, Degas, and Bethe Morisot would join them. The lordly Manet being the exception as he never exhibited with the impressionist.