1854-1858: installed in Paris with his family, he works as painter on Porcelaine in a factory. He will paint next on fans and curtains.

1862-1865: studies in the school of fine arts where he meets Monet, Bazille and Sisley. He takes also courses in the private school of Charles Gleyre.

1865-1870: he decides to become a painter. He paints his canvases in the open air or in a workshop that he shares with Bazille. He exposes a Canvass in the Salon de Paris of 1865, then he will be denied to the next ones. He does not have much success and has to face important financial difficulties.

1872-1874: after the french-german war during while he served in the army, he resumes his activity of painter and participates in the first impressionnist exhibition of 1874, in the workshop of Nadar, the photographer.

1875-1882: most créative period of impressionism which nevertheless undergoes sharp critics; he exposes twice in the Salon de Paris and in several independent exhibitions.

1883: beginning of the Said "dry" period . Renoir changes style : his drawing becomes more precise, the colors colder and more smoothed. Considered by a lot as a regression, this period nevertheless contain some very interesting works.

1886: participates in the exhibition of the XX in Brussels.

1888: he begins to feel the attacks of the disease which obliges him to frequent stays under the sun of the Méditerranean coast.

1890: he marries Aline Charigot, mother of his son, Pierre, born in 1885; he will have two other sons : Jean in 1894 and Claude in 1901

The 30 last years of his life, Renoir has growing success and honors ; it participates in numerous exhibitions in several countries. During that time, he must fight against disease : rhumatism crises more and more painful which obliges him to install definitively on the riviera. Despite its distorted hands and the pain, he continues to paint till his death in Cagnes sur mer, December the 3rd 1919.