He and the rest of the Renoir family were the subjects of many of his father's paintings. She taught me to detest the cliché.' Gabrielle was also fascinated by the new early motion pictures, and when Renoir was only a few years old she took him to see his first film.Īs a child, Renoir moved to the south of France with his family. He wrote in his 1974 memoirs My Life and My Films, 'She taught me to see the face behind the mask and the fraud behind the flourishes. She introduced the young boy to the Guignol puppet shows in Montmartre, which influenced his later film career. Shortly before his birth, she had come to live with the Renoir family. Renoir was largely raised by Gabrielle Renard, his nanny and his mother's cousin, with whom he developed a strong bond. Jean Renoir was also the uncle of Claude Renoir (1913–1993), the son of Pierre, a cinematographer who worked with Jean Renoir on several of his films. His elder brother was Pierre Renoir, a French stage and film actor, and his younger brother Claude Renoir (1901–1969) had a brief career in the film industry, mostly assisting on a few of Jean's films.

He was the second son of Aline (née Charigot) Renoir and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the renowned painter. Renoir was born in the Montmartre district of Paris, France.

The young Renoir with Gabrielle Renard in a painting by his father Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1895-96)

Renoir my father by jean renoir