His relationship with Monet was
particularly close at this time, and their paintings of the beauty
spot called La Grenouillère done in 1869 (an example by Renoir is in
the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm) are regarded as the classic early
statements of the Impressionist style.
In the 1890s Renoir began to suffer from rheumatism
best-loved of all the Impressionists, for his
subjects---pretty children, flowers, beautiful scenes, above all
lovely women