Home of the Pet Doorbell Mat Login to your Account Pet Doorbell Pet Doorbell Mat System Great Artist Paintings Vermont covererd bridges About the Pet Doorbell Mat About Vermont Country Store Bar Stools Netshops Vermont Country Store Vermont Photographs-Pet Doorbell Vermont Teddy Bear Computer Geeks Knives Smart Bargains-Bargins-Pet Doorbell World Trade Center 09/10/01 Lighthouse Photographs Chess Sets-Netshops Doghouse -Pet Doorbell Globes-Netshops Adirondack Chair Bakers Racks Benches Bocce Ball-Netshops Clocks FIREPIT SHOP Firepits-Netshops Netshop-Stores Fireplace-Netshops Armoire Gallery-Netshops Bird Bath and Feeders-Pet Doorbell Hickory Farms Photography Tips-Kaplan Search Site Map Check Out Log Out View Cart Login to my account Renoir A Girl With a Watering Can $55.00 Digital Photograph of original painting made with Holograph imagery, taken by the staff of Back Roads Of Vermont. A Girl With a Watering Can 1876 The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (ruh NWAHR) was the son of a French tailor. He was one of seven children in the family. His first experience with painting came when he started to work for a porcelain maker who made fine dishes. Since their 13 year old boy wanted to be an artist, his parents thought this would be a good job for him. He painted flowers on cups and saucers. When the music teacher at school tried to teach him music, he just spent his time making drawings on the music books. He next began to paint fans for a living. The ladies used these fans to fan themselves when they became too warm. Then he painted window shades to look like stained glass windows. It seemed that he would never have a chance to become a real artist. Finally he was able to go to an art school. He became friends with other artists, Monet, Sisley, and Bazille. Money was scarce and they helped one another to get food and supplies. They developed a style of painting known as Impressionism. Someone started calling their paintings impressionistic because they titled some of their paintings as Impression, Impression of Sunrise etc. That person didn't really mean it as a compliment, but the name stayed with them. This style of painting used bright colors, and the artists rather than mixing the colors, would use quick brush strokes with the different colors, and the eye of the person viewing it would "mix" the colors. These artists worked out in the open and tried to show the effect of light on the colors. They observed how objects would change color as the sun moved across the sky. The Charpentier family befriended him and helped him financially. In return he painted portraits of the family. His painting of Madame Charpentier and Her Children became one of his most famous paintings. Before his death, he was able to see his Portrait of Madame Charpentier hanging in the famous Louvre. When he was 40 years old, Renoir married Alice Charigat and they had three sons, Pierre, Jean, and Claude. As he became older he began to suffer from rheumatoid arthritis. He used two sticks for walking, and he would attach the brush to his wrist with plaster so that he could paint. He called it "putting on his thumb". Since he couldn't change brushes easily, he would dip the brush in turpentine to clean it and continue painting. Toward the end of his life, he began to experiment in sculpture. He could not use his own hands to model, but he used assistants to do the work and he told them what to do. He died of pneumonia at the age of seventy-eight. Source: Renoir by William Gaunt

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