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Pierre Auguste Renoir
(Limoges, 1841 - 1919, Cagnes)
Oil on canvas. 65 x 54 cm.
Renoir 80, Daulte, I, 338.
Renoir, who had no independent financial means like Cézanne, required portrait commissions in order to live, even in the 70s, when he created his greatest masterpieces. For this reason, he came and went even in the houses of the haute bourgeoisie; he knew the publisher Charpentier, whose receptions were delightfully described by Rivière, the Berards in Paris and Wargemont, Cernuschi and the banker and proprietor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts", Charles Ephrussi. At the house of the latter he met the financier Cahen d’Anvers, who commissioned him to paint his daughter Irène, The picture was done in 1880 during two sittings in the banker's house. Rue Bassano. The then eight-year-old girl in a pale-blue Sunday dress sits turned to the left, the perfect model, her hands in her lap. Her head is slightly inclined, her gaze dreamy, inquisitive, precocious. Her abundant reddish-blonde hair falls over her shoulders and back, and she has the bangs that were the fashion of that period. Renoir has placed the figure before a tapestry-like background of green foliage, against which the delicate three-quarter profile of the girl stands out clearly. This heralds the "lngnsm" of the 80s.
In its finely articulated, dense brushwork the picture has affinities to the contemporary "Déjeuner des canotiers". One year later Renoir is commissioned to paint Irène’s two younger sisters.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
(Limoges, 1841 - 1919, Cagnes)
Oil on canvas. 65 x 54 cm.
Renoir 80, Daulte, I, 338.
Renoir, who had no independent financial means like Cézanne, required portrait commissions in order to live, even in the 70s, when he created his greatest masterpieces. For this reason, he came and went even in the houses of the haute bourgeoisie; he knew the publisher Charpentier, whose receptions were delightfully described by Rivière, the Berards in Paris and Wargemont, Cernuschi and the banker and proprietor of the "Gazette des Beaux-Arts", Charles Ephrussi. At the house of the latter he met the financier Cahen d’Anvers, who commissioned him to paint his daughter Irène, The picture was done in 1880 during two sittings in the banker's house. Rue Bassano. The then eight-year-old girl in a pale-blue Sunday dress sits turned to the left, the perfect model, her hands in her lap. Her head is slightly inclined, her gaze dreamy, inquisitive, precocious. Her abundant reddish-blonde hair falls over her shoulders and back, and she has the bangs that were the fashion of that period. Renoir has placed the figure before a tapestry-like background of green foliage, against which the delicate three-quarter profile of the girl stands out clearly. This heralds the "lngnsm" of the 80s.
In its finely articulated, dense brushwork the picture has affinities to the contemporary "Déjeuner des canotiers". One year later Renoir is commissioned to paint Irène’s two younger sisters.
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