Pierre Auguste Renoir Trivia

1. How many people are in this painting?

From Quiz "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir

Answer: 14

Renoir used people who were friends and colleagues of his, they frequently visited the Maison Fournaise. People would go to the Maison Fournaise to rent row boats, eat, and occasionally spend the night.

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: Diana

Although this early painting displays little of the artist's familiar style, the clear colors, the healty skin of the nude model and, above all, the serenity of her pose and attitude are all typical attributes of Renoir. Later in life, Renoir wrote "I have a horror of the word 'flesh', which has become so shopworn. Why not meat, while they are about it? What I like is skin, a young girl's skin that is pink and shows that she has good circulation But what I like above all is serenity."

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: Lise

Lise Trehot was born in 1848, the daughter of a postmaster. She and Renoir lived together until about 1872; during this time, she was the model for a number of Renoir's early paintings, including "Lise Sewing", "Lise With a Lace Shawl", and "Lise With a Parasol". Eventally, Lise and Renoir parted and she married a young architect, with whom she raised a family. She died in 1922.

From Quiz "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir

Answer: A dog

The woman holding the dog is Aline Charigot who would later become Renoir's wife. They married in 1890.

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: Claude Monet

Monet is shown holding his palette and brushes standing in front of a window. Renoir also did pastel portraits of Cezanne and de Banville. Renoir also did a later painting of Monet in front of his famous garden.

From Quiz "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir

Answer: 6

There are 5 on the table in the foreground, look closely and there is one more on a table in the background.

From Quiz "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir

Answer: Yellow

There are four people wearing boaters. Paul Lhote, Eugene Pierre Lestringez, Alphonsine Fournaise and her brother Alphonse Fournaise Jr. The Fournaises are daughter and son of the proprietor of the Maison Fournaise.

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: Algeria

Renoir wrote of Algiers "The magic of the sun transmutes the palm trees into gold, the water seems full of diamonds, and men become the kings from the East". His paintings of Algerian subjects include "The Young Arab", "Souvenir d'Alger", "Muslim Festival in Algiers", "Algerian Landscape" and "Mosque in Algiers".

From Quiz "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir

Answer: Drinking

The lady is actress Ellen Andree. She is seated across from Baron Raoul Barbier, who is a bon vivant and former mayor of colonial Saigon.

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: The Umbrellas

Although Renoir delighted in the use of brilliant color, he was equally skillful using blacks and greys, as this painting of a rainy day in Paris clearly displays. The little girl in the bottom right hand side seems to be the same child from "Little Girl with a Watering Can". The 1876 painting "Two Girls in Black" bears a similarity to this one as a color study ("On the Terrace", on the other hand, is one of Renoir's most vibrantly colorful paintings). Renoir's son Jean, who became a celebrated filmmaker, wrote a biography of his father; in it, he mentions a delegation of admiring artists who came to the door one day and announced "Monsieur Renoir, we have thrown all our tubes of black paint into the Seine." Renoir replied "But black is a very important color, perhaps the most important."

From Quiz "The Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir

Answer: 2

The two men with sleeveless shirts are Alphonse Fournaise Jr. and Gustave Caillebotte. Caillebotte was an avid boatman and sailor and liked to paint these activities.

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: Mme Renoir's cousin

The frankly erotic nature of Renoir's paintings of Gabrielle (and other models) have given rise to rumors of an affair, but contemporary accounts of the artist's habits make this unlikely; Renoir was devoted to his wife and family and, according to a friend, he "would much prefer to paint a beautiful woman than make love to her".

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: La Grenouillere

La Grenouillere was a popular bathing and boating resort at Croissy on the Seine. Renoir was particularly fond of depicting the carefree life of this particular location; in 1869, both he and Monet did similar paintings of one section of the resort where rowboats were moored and launched, people dined on a canopied terrace, and bathers enjoyed the water. To see and compare these two paintings, go to http://www.abcgallery.com/R/renoir/renoirbio.html.

From Quiz Paintings of Renoir

Answer: Richard Wagner

Renoir was introduced to Wagner by his friend Lascou, a magistrate who was a great admirer of the composer. Although he knew little of Wagner's music, Renoir's instinctive sympathy for the underdog caused him to sympathize with the composer, who was the object of much hostility among the French. The composer agreed to sit for Renoir, but limited the time to forty-five minutes, during which Renoir completed a portrait and a few sketches. Wagner's withering anti-French and anti-Semitic comments during the brief sitting eroded Renoir's sympathy, particularly the composer's remarks about Offenbach, whom Renoir adored. Some time afterward, Renoir would suffer through a performance of "Die Walkure" at Bayreuth and found the length of the opera and the completely darkened theater intolerable. He wrote to a friend "You are forced to look at the only place where there's any light: the stage. It's absolute tyranny. I might want to look at a pretty woman sitting in a box. We might as well be frank about it: Wagner's music is boring."

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