Along with evening classes at the School of Fine Arts, he took painting lessons from Swiss painter Charles Gleyre. There he w
Along with evening classes at the School of Fine Arts, he took painting lessons from Swiss painter Charles Gleyre. There he was soon joined by Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille; where he befriended and painted portraits of all three. His early work, such as "The Theatre Box," was Impressionistic, but subsequent trips to Provence, Italy, and Algeria made in 1881 and 1882 turned him toward painting in neoclassical style of Ingres but with more color, as in "The Umbrellas." _FOR TEN POINTS_—identify this French painter, perhaps best known for his "Bathers" series.
Along with evening classes at the School of Fine Arts, he took painting lessons from Swiss painter Charles Gleyre.
Pierre-Auguste {Renoir}