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You should let your son do art painting; in our profession he will manage, at most, to earn twelve or fifteen francs a day. I predict for him a brilliant destiny in the arts. »
This is the wise advice given by a worker at the Lévy Frères porcelain factory to the parents of his young colleague Pierre-Auguste Renoir. This one, in fact, unlike most of the impressionists, did not come from a privileged social background. Born in 1841 to a tailor father and a seamstress mother, he began working as a teenager – as a porcelain painter, therefore – and his…
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