When Renoir started his job as a painter, very problematic in his small bourgeois environment, he could not imagine a success like that.
His father, Léonard, never got rich with his profession, not in Limoges or in Paris, where he lived with his family in 1845. Paris was then, the capital of the most important states in the world. The french country was piliticly and economicly centrelized, with Paris as a heart and crown. The art in the Second Imperium was very important. It developed a rich literature, with great writers
Sculptors like Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux created great neobarrocos sculptures. A large selection of painters decorated the halls, theatres and restaurants with oil paintings with soft colors with great sensations.
Dance At Bougival
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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It is possible that the sense he developed later for the luminic strengh of color and porcelanaisc smoothness is because of his start in these workshop.
In his lunch time, he used to run to the Museum of Louvre, close to the workshop, to draw, coping Antique sculptures.
One time, when looking for a cheap restaurant to eat, he saw the Fountaine des Innocents decorated with reliefs of the Renaissance sculptor, Jean Goujou:
"Inmediatly I forgot about the pub, bought a piece of sausage and spent the free hour walking around these fountaine." - said Renoir later.
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