... period of time he started decorating fans and window blinds. At seventeen he copied painting onto fans and lampshades, saving enough money he decided to study art. Attending Ecole des Beaux-Arts he studies art with Gleyre. Renoir studied painting from 1962 to 1963 at the Academy of the Swiss painter chartes Gabriel Gleyre in Paris. Two French artists influenced Renoir's early ... in 1878, and is now exhibited in the Metropolitan museum in New York City. Renoir particularly liked to paint mothers and children. During the year 1880 he gave up his arts section studio, and moved his family ...

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