While Pierre’s appearance as conveyed by his portraits is normal for a child of the time, there is a stark contrast between the appearances of Pierre and those of Renoir’s later sons. The main cause of this discrepancy is the length of the boys’ hair. While Pierre’s hair was cut at a young age, the same could not be said for Renoir’s later sons. Renoir refused to cut their hair until they were past the age of six, an oddity even for the time. By the time Jean, born 1894, and later his brother Claude, born 1901, were six, they had hair well past their shoulders, much to the boys’ chagrin. Jean later commented “At the age of six, and in spite of my trousers, many people mistook me for a girl. Street urchins ran jeering after me, calling me ‘Mademoiselle’ and asking me what I had done with my skirt.” (qtd. Bailey 224) This indicates both the degree to which Jean’s long hair transformed his appearance into one of a girl and the disdain he felt for this transformation. Jean’s long hair was not merely a result of his parents’ absent mindedness or neglect, but of a conscious decision on Renoir’s part (Bailey 224). Renoir adored painting his sons’ long, golden, slightly curly locks, and consequently he painted them constantly. It is even possible to place his pictures of his sons in chronological order by examining the length of the children’s hair (Bailey 224).