Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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An Impressionist fond of apple-cheeked women and children
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) was originally a porcelain painter, which helps explain his figures' ivory skin and chubby pink cheeks.
Though a founding member of the Impressionists, in a way he is also the last of the great Romantics, inheriting the focus on feminine beauty (particularly of the plump, Rubenesque variety) and elegance from the rococo era.