Renoir
Americannoun
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Jean 1894–1979, French film director and writer.
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his father Pierre Auguste 1841–1919, French painter.
noun
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Jean (ʒɑ̃). 1894–1979, French film director: his films include La grande illusion (1937), La règle du jeu (1939), and Diary of a Chambermaid (1945)
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his father, Pierre Auguste (pjɛr oɡyst). 1841–1919, French painter. One of the initiators of impressionism, he broke away from the movement with his later paintings, esp his many nude studies, which are more formal compositions
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At least five people have been arrested in France in connection with the theft of two paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir last month, local media report.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Italian police in August said they had recovered paintings by Renoir, Cezanne and Matisse worth over $10.4 million that were stolen in a three-minute heist from a museum in March.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Two paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir have been stolen from a museum in the south of France.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026
PARIS—A pair of thieves stole four artworks from a French museum dedicated to the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, in a sign of the country’s struggle to protect its cultural heritage following last year’s Louvre heist.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
He sat by an open window, sipping his coffee, and imagined how Rue Cortot had looked when Monsieur Renoir ate his breakfast here more than a century before.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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