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70
Victorine Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], 29 May 1870, in ibid., p. 53.
71
Victorine Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], n.d., in ibid., p. 54.
72
Victorine Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], 29 May 1870, in ibid., p. 53.
73
Victorine Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], July 1868, in ibid., p. 54.
74
Aline Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], 10 July 1871, in ibid., p. 48.
75
Victorine Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], 4 August 1872, in ibid., p. 55.
76
Victorine Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], August 1872, in ibid..
77
Victorine Charigot to Emilie Charigot, n.l. [Essoyes], August 1874, in ibid., pp. 55–6.
78
Charles Durand-Ruel to the author, personal communication, 27 August 1981.
79
Julie Manet, Growing Up with the Impressionists, entry of 19 September 1895, p. 67; French edn, Journal, p. 66.
80
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, c. September 1878, private collection.
81
Renoir Personal Artifacts and Archives Collection contains Renoir’s letters to Aline.
82
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August–September 1882], private collection.
83
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, [Mustapha] Algiers, c. 20 February 1881, private collection.
84
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 1881], private collection.
85
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Dieppe, n.d. [August–September 1882], private collection.
86
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 1883], private collection.
87
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [1880–85], private collection.
88
E.g., unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [1879–81], private collection.
89
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 1879], private collection.
90
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August 1881], private collection.
91
For the famous example of the Judgment of Paris, 1908 (Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3471), Renoir first used a male actor and later his model Gabrielle to pose for the figure of Paris.
92
Ibid., vol. 1, pls 583, 224, 254, respectively.
93
Ibid., vol. 2, pl. 999.
94
For mothers and children, ibid., vol. 1, pls 215, 250, 254, 255; for nudes pls 590, 589, 582; vol. 2, pls 1295, 1296, 1323; vol. 3, pl. 2493.
95
Ibid., vol. 1, pl. 217.
96
For portraits of Alphonse Fournaise and his daughter Alphonsine see ibid., pls 515, 321, 469, 472, respectively.
97
Renoir to Georges de Bellio, Chatou, n.d. [c. 1881], excerpt in Paris, Librairie Henri Saffroy, sale catalogue, n.d., no. 1314.
98
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 307.
99
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Dieppe], n.d. [August–September 1882], private collection.
100
For the identities of these figures see The New York Times, Sunday, 9 April 2006, p. 33.
101
Renoir to Paul Bérard, Chatou, n.d. [September 1879], in ‘Lettres de Renoir à Paul Bérard’, p. 3.
102
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August 1881], private collection.
103
Renoir to Paul Bérard, n.l. [Chatou], n.d. [mid-September 1880], in ‘Lettres de Renoir à Paul Bérard’, pp. 4–5.
104
Renoir had painted André Bérard during the summer of 1879 dressed in his school outfit and carrying books; Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 567.
105
Renoir to Duret, n.l., 13 February 1880, in Braun, L’Impressionnisme et quelques précurseurs, pp. 10–11.
106
Pissarro to Lucien Pissarro, n.l., 22 January 1899, in Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. 5, pp. 10–11. Even though Renoir broke his right arm again in September 1897 (see Ch. 4), Pissarro was probably thinking of the 1880 break, both because they were closer friends at that time and because the quality and quantity of Renoir’s paintings after the 1880 break were indeed astonishing.
107
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 252, 487, 250, 485, respectively; commissioned portraits: pls 342, 424, 472, 476, 506–8, 551, 568, 569.
108
Mme Charpentier and her Children is 153.7 × 190.2 cm (60½ × 75 in.).
109
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Algiers, n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
110
Ibid.
111
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August 1881], private collection.
112
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August–September 1882], private collection.
113
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Dieppe, n.d. [August–September 1882], private collection.
114
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August 1881], private collection.
115
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 368, 372.
116
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 1883], private collection.
117
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 506. Ephrussi commissioned Renoir to make a drawing after the portrait of Irène, published in Gazette des Beaux-arts (July 1881); see Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 11, fig. 11.
118
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 253; see Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 181; de Waal, Hare with Amber Eyes, p. 83; see also here Ch. 4, p. 204, n. 110.
119
Renoir to Duret, Algiers, 4 March 1881, in Benjamin, Renoir and Algeria, p. 143.
120
Renoir to Duret, n.l., [18 April] 1881, in Écrits et propos sur l’art, p. 115.
121
Unpublished letters, private collection.
122
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Algiers, n.d. [April 1881], private collection.
123
Renoir to Mme Marguerite Bérard, Algiers, n.d. [c. 28 February 1881], in Benjamin, Renoir and Algeria, p. 144.
124
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [near Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
125
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
126
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. March 1881], private collection.
127
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [mid-March 1881], private collection.
128
Renoir to Morisot, Pornic, n.d. [summer–autumn 1892], in Morisot, Berthe Morisot: The Correspondence, p. 172; French edn, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot, p. 170.
129
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 February 1881], private collection.
130
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Algiers, n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
131
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Algiers, 29 February 1881, private collection.
132
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Mustapha], n.d. [c. 20 February 1881], private collection.
133
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 101, 158, 201, 308, respectively.
134
Renoir to Mme Marguerite Bérard, Algiers, n.d. [c. 28 February 1881], in Benjamin, Renoir and Algeria, p. 144.
135
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, [c. 20 February 1881], see n. 83 above.
136
Renoir to Duret, Algiers, 4 March 1881, in Benjamin, Renoir and Alg
eria, p. 143.
137
Renoir to Mme Marguerite Charpentier, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [4 March 1881], in ibid.
138
Renoir to Charles Ephrussi, Algiers, 28 February 1881, in ibid.
139
Renoir to Mme Marguerite Bérard, Algiers, n.d. [c. 28 February 1881], in ibid., p. 144.
140
Renoir to Paul Bérard, Algiers, 1881, in ibid. For two landscapes Renoir did at this time see Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 157, 158.
141
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
142
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 223. Other landscapes he painted include Field of Bananas, Algiers and three paintings entitled Garden of Essai, ibid., pls 201, 101, 200, 202, respectively; Ravine of the Wild Woman, 1882, in Benjamin, Renoir and Algeria, pl. 85.
143
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 158.
144
Ibid., pls 308, 345, 384.
145
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Mustapha], n.d. [c. 20 February 1881], private collection.
146
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
147
Le Coeur, Edmond Renoir, Pierre Auguste Renoir, p. 7.
148
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
149
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [mid-April 1881], private collection.
150
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
151
Ibid.
152
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [March 1881], private collection.
153
Unpublished, Victor Charigot to Aline, Winnipeg, Canada, 2 August 1880, private collection.
154
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [c. 15 March 1881], private collection.
155
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [April 1881], private collection.
156
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [15 April 1881], private collection.
157
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Algiers], n.d. [April 1881], private collection.
158
Renoir to Duret, n.l. [Chatou], n.d. [Easter Monday, 18 April 1881], in Renoir, Écrits, entretiens et lettres, p. 115.
159
Renoir to Duret, Algiers, 4 March 1881, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 105.
160
Pissarro to his son Lucien, Eragny, 23 February 1887, in Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. 2, p. 131.
161
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l. [Louveciennes], n.d. [c. 1881], private collection.
162
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline., n.l., n.d. [July–September 1882], private collection.
163
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 254, 478.
164
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Dieppe, n.d. [July 1881], private collection.
165
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [summer 1881], private collection.
166
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 282, 488, 558, 572, 574.
167
Mme Émile (Félicie) Blanche to Dr Blanche, Dieppe, c. 20 July 1881, in Blanche, Pêche aux souvenirs, pp. 443–4.
168
Jacques-Émile Blanche to his father, Dr Blanche, Dieppe, 20 July 1881, in ibid., pp. 444–5.
169
Blanche to his father, 15 August 1882, in ibid., p. 441.
170
Jacques-Émile Blanche bought the oil study for Shepherd, Cow, and Sheep, 1886, and Large Bathers of 1887, Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 1048, 1292.
171
Benjamin, Renoir and Algeria, p. 42.
172
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 583.
173
Manet, Growing Up with the Impressionists, entry of 19 September 1895, p. 67; French edn, Journal, p. 66.
174
Renoir, Renoir, My Father, p. 239.
175
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 596, 603.
176
Renoir to Charles Deudon, Naples, n.d. [December 1881], in White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, pp. 347–8.
177
Renoir to Manet, Capri, 28 December 1881, ibid., p. 348.
178
André Renoir: Carnet de Dessins – Renoir en Italie et en Algérie.
179
Renoir to Bérard, Venice, 1 November 1881, excerpt in Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 16 February 1979, no. 69.
180
Renoir to Mme Charpentier, Venice, n.d. [autumn 1881], in White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, p. 346.
181
Renoir to Deudon, n.l., November 1881, ibid., p. 347.
182
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Naples, 21 November 1881, ibid.
183
Renoir to Mme Charpentier, L’Estaque, n.d. [late January or early February 1882], ibid., p. 350.
184
See Herbert, Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, pp. 69–71.
185
Renoir to Bérard, Capri, 26 December 1881, excerpt in Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 16 February 1979, no. 72.
186
Renoir to Manet, Capri, 28 December 1881, in White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, p. 348.
187
Monneret, L’Impressionnisme et son époque, vol. 2, p. 90.
188
Renoir to Deudon, n.l., n.d. [December 1883], in White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, p. 350.
189
Unpublished, Manet to Renoir, n.l., 30 December 1881, private collection.
190
Renoir to Deudon, Naples, n.d. [December 1881], in White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, p. 348.
191
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 439, 480, 438, 255, respectively.
192
White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, pl. 24.
193
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1253; Renoir to M. Charpentier, n.l., n.d., in ‘Renoir et la famille Charpentier’, p. 38.
194
Renoir to unnamed friend [Georges Charpentier], n.l. [Palermo], 14 January 1882, in White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, pp. 350, 349, respectively.
195
Cosima Wagner quoted in Distel, Renoir (2010), p. 209.
196
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1464. Four years later, the Charpentiers sold their Wagner portrait to Robert de Bonnières. In 1893, Renoir was commissioned to make a replica for Cheramy and borrowed the portrait from Bonnières; ibid., pl. 1257.
197
Dauberville, vol. 1, pls 162, 161, 198, 163, 160, 170, 169, 165–7, 199, respectively.
198
Renoir to Paul Durand-Ruel, Naples, 21 November 1881, in Renoir, Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 15.
199
Renoir to Bérard, Naples, 26 November 1881, excerpt in Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 16 February 1979, no. 70.
200
Rivière, ‘L’exposition des impressionnistes’, L’Impressionniste: journal d’art 2 (14 April 1877), repr. in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 2, p. 316.
201
Renoir to Paul Durand-Ruel, Naples, 21 November 1881, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 15.
202
Renoir to Mme Charpentier, L’Estaque, late January or early February 1882, in White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, p. 350.
203
White, ‘Renoir’s Trip to Italy’, pl. 25; Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 44, respectively.
204
For the portrait see Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 508.
205
Ibid., vol. 2, pl. 1295.
206
Reno
ir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [L’Estaque], 23 January 1882, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 20.
207
For landscapes by Renoir and Cézanne see White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 123; Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 774, and pl. 775 for a second landscape painted there.
208
Renoir quoted in Cézanne to Zola, n.l. [Aix], 10 March 1883, in Cézanne, Paul Cézanne: Correspondance, p. 209.
209
Renoir quoted in Pach, ‘Pierre-Auguste Renoir’, Scribner’s Magazine, May 1912, repr. in Wadley, Renoir: A Retrospective, p. 245.
210
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [L’Estaque], 14 February 1882, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 21.
211