We can talk about Renoir as the painter that makes happy the eyes of the viewer. Son of a tailer of Limoges, born the 25th of february of 1841, he painted, in 60 years of work, nearly six hundred paintings, the biggest work made by an artist before Pablo Picasso. The best of his paintings are priceless today. When Renoir started his job as a painter, in a very problematic, small bourgeois environment, he could not imagine his great success in the future as an artist. His father, Leonard, never became rich by his profession, neither in Limoges nor Paris where he lived with his family in 1845. Renoir started painting at the age of 13 as an apprentice in a porcelain workshop. He painted little flowers, shepherd idylls and the face of Maria Antonieta in coffee cups. At 21, he started his painting studies in the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, the Superior centre of Arts studies.

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