Seamstress from Essoyes who models with the terrier at the left of Luncheon of the Boating Party; Renoir's companion from the early 1880s, mother of his three sons, and his wife from 1890.
Painting · Impressionism
Pierre-Auguste Renoir gathers friends on the balcony of the Maison Fournaise at Chatou, beside the Seine. Aline Charigot holds a dog at the left, while Gustave Caillebotte sits backward in a chair at the right.
Married to · 1890–1915
Aline Charigot was Renoir's companion from the early 1880s — she is the young woman with the terrier in Luncheon of the Boating Party — and the mother of his three sons. They married in 1890, when Renoir was forty-nine; she died in 1915.
Parent of
The second of Aline's three sons with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born in 1894. Her Champagne village of Essoyes remained the family's anchor: Jean is buried there in the family tomb.
Married to · 1890–1915
Aline Charigot was Renoir's companion from the early 1880s — she is the young woman with the terrier in Luncheon of the Boating Party — and the mother of his three sons. They married in 1890, when Renoir was forty-nine; she died in 1915.
Parent of
The second of Aline's three sons with Pierre-Auguste Renoir, born in 1894. Her Champagne village of Essoyes remained the family's anchor: Jean is buried there in the family tomb.
Depicted in
The Phillips Collection identifies Aline Charigot as the woman holding the dog at the lower left.
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