Pierre-Auguste Renoir is a famous French impressionist painter, associated with the Impressionism movement along with his friends Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Frédéric Bazille.

Renoir was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne, France, on February 25, 1841 as a child of a working class family. Renoir's first encounter with painting dates from his childhood he worked in a porcelain factory where his drawing talent led to him painting designs on China.