フランス中部のリモージュに生まれ、パリで育ちました。13歳で陶器に絵をつける職人の見習いになり、のちに画家をめざします。モネたちと印象派の展覧会に参加し、木もれ日の中で踊る人々を描いた《ムーラン・ド・ラ・ギャレットの舞踏会》などで知られます。晩年は手の病気に苦しみながらも、最後まで筆をとりました。
Renoir was born in Limoges in central France and grew up in Paris. At 13, he started training as a painter of porcelain. Later he decided to become an artist. He showed his work with Monet and the other Impressionists. He is famous for paintings like Dance at the Moulin de la Galette, where people dance in dappled sunlight. In old age, his hands were badly hurt by illness, but he kept painting until the end.
