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by Barbara Ehrlich White


  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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, c. September 1878, private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August–September 1882], private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, [Mustapha] Algiers, c. 20 February 1881, private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 1881], private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, Dieppe, n.d. [August–September 1882], private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 1883], private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [1880–85], private collection.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  E.g., unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [1879–81], private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [c. 1879], private collection.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  Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [August 1881], private collection.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

 

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