A-line charigot renoir biography

Wife and model of Auguste Renoir, 1859-1915

Aline Victorine Charigot (23 May 1859 – 27 June 1915) was a model for Auguste Renoir and later became his wife while continuing to model for him and then caring for him when he became disabled.

She is pictured in many of his paintings over very many years, most famously in the early 1880s Luncheon of the Boating Party (where she is the woman on the left with the little dog), and Blonde Bather. They had three children together, two of whom, Pierre and Jean, went on to have distinguished careers in film, and the third, Claude, became a ceramic artist.

Pierre had a son Claude who became the well-known cinematographer. She predeceased her elderly husband.

Biography

Aline Charigot was born on 23 May 1859 to a farming family who cultivated grapes in Essoyes in the department of Aube, France.^{[note 1]} When she was still a baby her father went to America and her mother moved away leaving Aline to be looked af