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.

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 after by her aunt and uncle.

Aline died from a heart attack in Nice on 27 June 1915 after a hospital visit to Jean so predeceasing her elderly and disabled husband by four years.

[1][4] Charigot had a love of the arts – she played the piano[note 2] and decorated her bedroom with paintings by Johan Jongkind.

[2][3][9] Renoir's biographer, Barbara White, describes the appearance of the model in the 1881 Blonde Bather as "rotund" and the 1885 and 1886 portraits being of a curvaceous woman.

[2] In the 1880s she was Renoir's main model for the period in which he changed his manner of figure painting and broke away from Impressionism in a return to the old masters.