Editing Pierre-Auguste Renoir (section)

===Adulthood===
Renoir was inspired by the style and subject matter of previous modern painters [[Camille Pissarro]] and [[Édouard Manet]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Haine|first1=Scott|title=The History of France|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=0-313-30328-2| page=[https://archive.org/details/historyoffrance00hain/page/112 112] |edition=1st| year=2000|url-access= registration |url= https://archive.org/details/historyoffrance00hain/page/112}}</ref> After a series of rejections by the Salon juries, he joined forces with Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, and several other artists to mount the [[First Impressionist Exhibition]] in April 1874, in which Renoir displayed six paintings. Although the critical response to the exhibition was largely unfavorable, Renoir's work was comparatively well received.<ref name="OxfordArtOnline"/> That same year, two of his works were shown with [[Paul Durand-Ruel|Durand-Ruel]] in London.<ref name= "Wadley, page 15"/>
[[File:Auguste Renoir - The Swing - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|left|''[[The Swing (Pierre-Auguste Renoir)|The Swing (La Balançoire)]]'', 1876, oil on canvas, [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris]]

Hoping to secure a livelihood by attracting portrait commissions, Renoir displayed mostly portraits at the second Impressionist exhibition in 1876.<ref name="Brodskaya_114"/> He contributed a more diverse range of paintings the next year when the group presented its third exhibition; they included ''Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette'' and ''The Swing''.<ref name="Brodskaya_114">{{cite book| last= Brodskaja| first= Natalja |year= 2010| url= https://books.google.com/books?id=SMqjAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA114 |title= Impressionism| place= London| publisher= Parkstone Press| page= 114 | isbn= 9781844847433}}</ref>  Renoir did not exhibit in the fourth or fifth Impressionist exhibitions, and instead resumed submitting his works to the Salon. By the end of the 1870s, particularly after the success of his painting ''[[Marguerite Charpentier|Mme Charpentier]] and her Children'' (1878) at the Salon of 1879, Renoir was a successful and fashionable painter.<ref name="OxfordArtOnline"/>

It was also in 1879 that he met the man who was soon to become his main patron, {{ill|Paul Bérard|fr|Paul-Antoine Bérard}}, who regularly invited him to paint and enjoy the Normandy seaside at the {{ill|Château de Wargemont|fr|Château de Wargemont|lt=Château de Wargemont.}}[[File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette.jpg|thumb|250px|''Dance at Le Moulin de la Galette'' (''[[Bal du moulin de la Galette]]''), 1876, [[Musée d'Orsay]]]]

In 1881, he traveled to [[Algeria]], a country he associated with [[Eugène Delacroix]],<ref>{{cite book| last1= Poulet| first1= A. L.| last2= Murphy| first2= A. R. |year= 1979| title= Corot to Braque: French Paintings from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston| page= 117| place= Boston| publisher= The Museum |isbn= 0-87846-134-5}}</ref> then to [[Madrid]], to see the work of [[Diego Velázquez]]. Following that, he traveled to Italy to see [[Titian]]'s masterpieces in [[Florence]] and the paintings of [[Raffaello Santi|Raphael]] in Rome. On 15 January 1882, Renoir met the composer [[Richard Wagner]] at his home in [[Palermo]], Sicily. Renoir painted Wagner's portrait in just thirty-five minutes. In the same year, after contracting pneumonia which permanently damaged his respiratory system, Renoir convalesced for six weeks in Algeria.<ref name="Wadley, page 25">Wadley, p. 25.</ref>

In 1883, Renoir spent the summer in [[Guernsey]], one of the [[Channel Islands|islands]] in the [[English Channel]] with a varied landscape of beaches, cliffs, and bays, where he created fifteen paintings in little over a month. Most of these feature ''Moulin Huet'', a bay in [[Saint Martin's, Guernsey]]. These paintings were the subject of a set of commemorative postage stamps issued by the Bailiwick of Guernsey in 1983.

While living and working in Montmartre, Renoir employed [[Suzanne Valadon]] as a model, who posed for him (''The Large Bathers'', 1884–1887; ''[[Dance at Bougival]]'', 1883)<ref>Wadley, pages 371, 374.</ref> and many of his fellow painters; during that time, she studied their techniques and eventually became one of the leading painters of the day.

In 1887, the year when [[Queen Victoria]] celebrated her [[Golden Jubilee]], and upon the request of the queen's associate, Phillip Richbourg, Renoir donated several paintings to the "French Impressionist Paintings" catalog as a token of his loyalty.

[[File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Luncheon of the Boating Party - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|250px|''[[Luncheon of the Boating Party]]'', 1880–1881]]
In 1890, he married [[Aline Charigot|Aline Victorine Charigot]], a dressmaker twenty years his junior,<ref>{{cite book |last1= Renoir| first1= Jean |title=Renoir, My Father |date=2001|publisher=NYRB Classics|isbn=0940322773|page=200}}</ref> who, along with a number of the artist's friends, had already served as a model for ''Le Déjeuner des canotiers'' (''[[Luncheon of the Boating Party]]''; she is the woman on the left playing with the dog) in 1881, and with whom he had already had a child, Pierre, in 1885.<ref name="Wadley, page 25"/> After marrying, Renoir painted many scenes of his wife and daily family life including their children and their nurse, Aline's cousin [[Gabrielle Renard]]. The Renoirs had three sons: [[Pierre Renoir]] (1885–1952), who became a stage and film actor; [[Jean Renoir]] (1894–1979), who became a filmmaker of note; and Claude Renoir (1901–1969), who became a ceramic artist.