Pierre-Auguste Renoir"Renoir". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."Read, Herbert: The Meaning of Art, page 127. Faber, 1931.
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