The childhood - The beginnings

                                  ierre-August Renoir was born  February 25, 1841 to Limoges.

	is father, Leonardo Renoir is stonecutter.
	is mother, Daisy Merlet, seamstress.

              his modest family, of six children, decides in 1845 to come to Paris in the hope to find better conditions of work.

At 7 years, Renoir enters at Christian school Brothers.         He joins chœurses of Saint-Roch church whose master is Charles Gounod.

                        enoir already draws very well and fills his class notebooks of drawings.

                        uickly, he must contribute to his family's finances. His parents decide to withdraw him of the school and at 13 years, he enters in training at Lévy’s brothers in a shop of painting on porcelain.

                        uring four years, he is going to paint flowers, bunchs, and other ornaments on plates of porcelain.

             n 1858, processes of mechanical impression take the step on the manual work, the Brothers Lévy must close and at 17 years, Renoir must look for another work.

                   e enters then at M Gilbert, he paints some elegant or mythological feasts to the manner of Watteau on blinds and fans. All as at the Lévy’s brothers, he is appréciated by his employer for his remarkable work of decorator, but he thinks about only one thing: 

"one day to become painter "

His beginnings

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