36
Renoir to Eugène Manet, Essoyes, [29 December 1888], in Morisot, Correspondence, p. 145; French edn, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot, pp. 142–3.
37
Cézanne, Paul Cézanne: Correspondance, pp. 218–20.
38
Cézanne to Zola, 11 July 1885, in ibid., p. 220.
39
Cézanne to Zola, La Roche-Guyon, 6 July 1885, ibid. Danchev in The Letters of Paul Cézanne, p. 234, dates this letter 15 June.
40
White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, pl. 157 (Cézanne); Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 901.
41
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 803.
42
Venturi, Cézanne, vol. 1, p. 441. Cézannes in Renoir’s collection included 3 other paintings and 2 watercolours: Thatched Cottages in Auvers, 1872–3, ibid., p. 97, pl. 135; Landscape, 1879–82, p. 132, pl. 308; Bacchanale (Struggle of Love), c. 1875–6, p. 148, pl. 380; Nude Bathers, 1882–94, watercolour, p. 251, pl. 902; for plates see ibid., vol. 2, pls 35, 83, 104, 281; for Carafe and Bowl, 1879–82, see Cézanne Watercolors, p. 25, no. 7, pl. V, on which see following text.
43
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [La Roche-Guyon], n.d. [15 June–11 July 1885], in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 45.
44
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Saint-Briac, 24 August 1886, in ibid., p. 53.
45
Renoir to Monet, n.l. [Saint-Briac], n.d. [c. 1 August–30 September 1886], in Geffroy, Claude Monet, vol. 2, pp. 23, 24.
46
Monet to Alice Hoschedé, n.l. [Cap d’Antibes], n.d. [21 January 1888], in Wildenstein, Monet: biographie, vol. 3, p. 225.
47
Unpublished, Renoir to Caillebotte, n.l., n.d. [c. 1885], private collection.
48
Renoir to Monet, Aix-en-Provence, [mid-January 1888], excerpt from Paris, Artcurial sale catalogue, n.d. 13 December 2006, no. 242.
49
Renoir to Monet, Martigues, n.d. [1 February 1888], excerpt from ibid., lot 243.
50
Unpublished, Cézanne to Zola, n.l., 10 March 1889, Paris, Bibliothèque National, 24516, Ff.492–605.f582.
51
Renoir, Mont Ste-Victoire, 1889 (Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 922), with Cézanne, Mont Ste-Victoire, c. 1889 (Lucy and House, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation, p. 124), and Renoir, Mont Ste-Victoire, c. 1889 (Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 921) with Cézanne, Mont Ste-Victoire, c. 1888–90 (Rewald, Cézanne, p. 177). Renoir, Pigeon Tower at Bellevue, 1889–90 (Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 920), with Cézanne, Pigeon Tower at Bellevue, 1888–90 (Lucy and House, Renoir in the Barnes Foundation, p. 123). Renoir also painted Pigeon Tower of Bellevue (estate of Montbriant), 1889, oil on canvas, 54 × 65 cm (21¼ × 25⅝ in.), location unknown, Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 918, and Study for Pigeon Tower at Bellevue (estate of Montbriant), oil on canvas, 46 × 55 cm (18⅛ × 21 in.), location unknown.
52
See Shiff, Cézanne and the End of Impressionism.
53
Unpublished, Renoir to Murer, Petit-Gennevilliers, n.d. [postmarked 29 September 1888], Paris, Bibliothèque Doucet.
54
Berhaut, Caillebotte, p. 217, pl. 391.
55
Ibid., p. 226, pl. 418, Mme Renoir in the Garden at Petit-Gennevilliers. For the visit see Renoir to Murer, Petit-Gennevilliers, 28 September 1891, in Gachet, Lettres impressionnistes, pp. 106–7.
56
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1064.
57
See Price, Puvis de Chavannes, vol. 2, p. 206, cat. no. 230 (1877–86); pp. 302–3, cat. nos 324, 325 (c. 1887); pp. 448–9, cat. no. A 135 (n.d.).
58
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1393 (repeated in error as pl. 1067).
59
Ibid., pl. 1209.
60
Ibid., pls 1394, 972, respectively, both signed ‘Renoir’.
61
Ibid., pl. 1398, signed ‘Renoir 87’.
62
Ibid., pls 969–71, 1292, 1574–7, 1290, 1291, 1510–25, 1563–70, 1599A–C, respectively.
63
Morisot, Correspondence, p. 145; French edn, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot, p. 128.
64
Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 1574–7, 1602.
65
Renoir to Bérard, La Roche-Guyon, [17 August 1886], excerpt from Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 16 February 1979, no. 74.
66
Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 970, 1148.
67
Unpublished, Renoir to Bérard, n.l., n.d [c.1886], private collection.
68
Renoir to Murer, Gennevilliers, 1 September 1886, in Gachet, Lettres impressionnistes, p. 99.
69
Unpublished, Renoir to Monet, Paris, 15 October 1886, Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
70
Pissarro to his son Lucien, Paris, 14 April 1887, in Correspondance de Pissarro, vol. 2, p. 151.
71
Monet to his wife, Kervilahouen, 17 October 1886, in Wildenstein, Monet: biographie, vol. 2, p. 281.
72
See White, ‘The Bathers of 1887 and Renoir’s Anti-Impressionism’.
73
Renoir to Bérard, Paris, 18 October 1886, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 166.
74
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 970.
75
Mirbeau, ‘Impressions d’art’, Le Gaulois (16 June 1886), in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 165.
76
Renoir to Mirbeau, n.l., 16 June 1886, in ibid.
77
Pissarro to his son Lucien, Paris, [27 July 1886], in Correspondance de Pissarro, vol. 2, p. 63.
78
Price, Puvis de Chavannes, vol. 2, pp. 178–9.
79
For preparatory drawings, see White, ‘Bathers of 1887 and Renoir’s Anti-Impressionism’.
80
Morisot, Correspondence, p. 145; French edn, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot, p. 128.
81
Distel, Renoir, p. 252; see Ch. 2 n. 296.
82
White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 173.
83
Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 967, 1003, 1059, 1254.
84
Pissarro to his son Lucien, Paris, 1 October 1888, in Correspondance de Pissarro, vol. 2, p. 254.
85
Pissarro to Lucien, Paris, [14 May 1887], in ibid., pp. 164, 163–64, respectively.
86
Pissarro to Lucien, Eragny, [20 September 1887], in ibid., p. 200.
87
Pissarro to Lucien, Paris, [15 May 1887], in ibid., pp. 166–7.
88
Pissarro to Lucien, Paris, [16 May 1887], in ibid., p. 169.
89
Pissarro to Lucien, Paris, 1 October 1888, in ibid., p. 254.
90
Wyzewa, ‘Pierre-Auguste Renoir’ (1890); also cited in Wadley, Renoir: A Retrospective, p. 181.
91
Gustave Geffroy, ‘Auguste Renoir’, La Vie artistique, 1894, cited in Wadley, Renoir: A Retrospective, p. 189.
92
Vincent van Gogh to his brother Theo, Arles, 4 and 5 May 1888, cited in ibid., p. 168. Van Gogh bought two small Renoirs; see Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, p. 277.
93
White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 174. J.-É. Blanche also purchased Basket of Peaches and Grapes, Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 47.
94
Monet to Durand-Ruel, Giverny, 13 May 1887, in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 1, pp. 325–6.
95
White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 175, drawings p. 176; see also Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 1481, 1232; White, Impressionists Side by Side, pp. 236–8.
96
Draft, Renoir to Durand-Ruel, L’Estaque, n.d. [c. 26 February 1882], in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 30.
97
See White, Impressionists
Side by Side, pp. 212–57, ‘Renoir and Morisot’.
98
Julie Manet, Growing Up with the Impressionists, entry of 14 September 1898, p. 145; French edn, Journal, p. 188.
99
Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., n.d. [17–20 June 1887], private collection.
100
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 25 December 1908, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 35.
101
Morisot to Mallarmé, Mézy, 14 July 1891, in Morisot, Correspondence, p. 182; French edn, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot, p. 160.
102
Morisot to Mallarmé, Mézy, autumn 1891, in Morisot, Correspondence, p. 185; French edn, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot, p. 163.
103
Renoir to Bérard, Paris, 24 September 1887, excerpt from Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 11 June 1980, no. 94.
104
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Martigues, n.d. [11–12 March 1888], in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 61; French in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 1, p. 140.
105
Renoir to Murer, n.l., n.d. [March 1883], in Gachet, Lettres impressionnistes, p. 92.
106
Juliette Adam (1836–1936), the feminist writer (not Madeleine Adam, whose portrait Renoir had painted in 1887). Renoir to unknown recipient [Philippe Burty], Cagnes, 8 April 1888, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 202; typescript in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel. François Daulte to the author, Lausanne, 9 December 1981: ‘Lastly, as to the 8 April 1888 letter cited in my catalogue, it is in the Durand-Ruel archives, and except for the greeting, I cited it fully. At the time of the publication of my catalogue, the letter had been unpublished, protected by the copyright of my book. The letter was addressed by Renoir to his friend, Philippe Burty.’
107
Manet, Growing Up with the Impressionists, entry of 31 January 1899, p. 159; French edn, Journal, p. 215.
108
Charles Baudelaire, Mon coeur mis à nu, ed. Claude Pichois, Textes Litteraires Français (Geneva: Droz, 2001), p. 16 (written early 1860s, first published 1897, 30 years after Baudelaire’s death).
109
Rheumatoid arthritis results in chronic, systemic inflammation that may affect many tissues and organs, but principally attacks flexible joints. It can be painful and can lead to substantial loss of functions and mobility.
110
Unpublished, Renoir to unidentified male recipient, n.l., n.d. [c. 9 August 1888], private collection.
111
Renoir to Charpentier, Essoyes, 29 December 1888, in ‘Renoir et la famille Charpentier’, p. 38.
112
Renoir to Eugène Manet, Essoyes, early January 1889, in Morisot, Correspondence, p. 163; French edn, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot, p. 143.
113
Renoir to Eugène Manet, n.l. [Essoyes], n.d. [January 1889], in ibid. At this time, Degas had problems with his vision.
114
Unpublished, Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Essoyes], n.d. [December1888], Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale.
115
Renoir to Murer, n.l. [Essoyes], 2 January 1889, in Jean Renoir, Renoir (1962), p. 263.
116
Renoir to Bérard, n.l., 9 October 1889, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 126.
117
In July 1892 he still was suffering from his teeth: Renoir to Paul Gallimard, n.l., July 1892, extract from New York, Parke-Bernet, 1961, sale number 2058, no. 457.
118
E.g. Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 1293, 1294.
119
Mellerio, ‘Les Artistes à l’atelier-Renoir’, n.p.
120
‘Nos artistes: le peintre P.A. Renoir chez lui’.
121
Renoir to Roger-Marx, n.l., 10 July [1888], in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 185.
122
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Tamaris, 5 March 1891, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 71.
123
Renoir to Bérard, Tamaris, 5 March 1891, in Renoir, Écrits, entretiens et lettres, p. 141.
124
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Le Lavandou], 23 April 1891, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 80.
125
Pissarro to his son Lucien, Eragny, 14 July 1891, in Correspondance de Pissarro, vol. 3, p. 105.
126
The Mendès daughters whom Renoir painted were Huguette (1871–1964), Claudine (1876–1937) and Helyonne (1879–1955).
127
Renoir to Catulle Mendès, Paris, n.d. [c. January 1888], excerpt from Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 13 December 1989, no. 160.
128
Salon of 1890, no. 2024, as Portraits of Mlles M…, Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 966.
129
Ibid., pls 1150, 1152 (exhibited 1890 in Brussels), 1154, 1165, 1256, respectively.
130
Durand-Ruel, interview of 28 November 1910, repr. in Geffroy, Claude Monet, vol. 1, p. 61.
131
Rewald, History of Impressionism, p. 544 n. 5.
132
Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 2, p. 216.
133
Durand-Ruel to Fantin-Latour, Paris, 21 August 1886, in ibid., p. 252.
134
See Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 270 n. 24; again held under the patronage of the American Association of Art.
135
Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 2, p. 218.
136
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Paris], 12 May 1887, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 56.
137
Ibid., p. 274 n. 44.
138
Renoir to Monet, n.l., 11 August 1889, in Geffroy, Claude Monet, vol. 1, p. 245.
139
Renoir to Monet, n.l., 10 January 1890, in ibid.
140
Duret to Caillebotte, Paris, n.d. [c. 1889], in Berhaut, Caillebotte, p. 247.
141
Monet to Pissarro, n.l., 22 July 1891, in Correspondance de Pissarro, vol. 3, p. 112 n. 1.
142
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 993; 990–92, 994 for the others.
143
In December 1889, Gallimard purchased his first Renoir from Durand-Ruel, the 1882 version of the Blonde Bather; ibid., pl. 1295.
144
Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 323 n. 15 cites evidence of the Madrid trip from the Éclair interview of 9 August 1892. See Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Grasse, 24 April 1900, in Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, p. 94.
145
Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 1154 (signed and dated painting), 1165 (unsigned, undated sketch).
146
Renoir to Gallimard, n.l., n.d., excerpt from Marburg, Stargardt, 3–4 December 1963, sale catalogue, no. 565.
147
Unpublished, Renoir to Gallimard, Beaulieu, 27 April 1893, in Paris, Institut Néerlandais.
148
See Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, pp. 8–11.
149
Unpublished marriage certificate, ‘Extraits des minutes des actes de mariage’, Ville de Paris, 9th arrondissement, 14 April 1890, no. 154/339, private collection.
150
Livret de famille, private collection.
151
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1178.
152
Renoir to Murer, n.l. [Paris], 30 October 1890, in Gachet, Lettres impressionnistes, p. 101.
153
Manet, Growing Up with the Impressionists, entry of 3 September 1893, p. 37; French edn, Journal, p. 18.
154
Renoir to Dr Gachet, n.l., 17 September 1890, in Gachet, Lettres impressionnistes, p. 87.
155
Manet, Growing Up with the Impressionists, entry of 14 September 1898, p. 145; French edn, Journal, p. 188.
156
Ibid., entry of 31 December
1896, p. 104; French edn, Journal, pp. 119–22.
157
Ibid., entry of 11 September 1898, p. 142; French edn, Journal, p. 187.
158
Renoir to Berthe Morisot, n.l., n.d. [c. 1892], in Hommage à Berthe Morisot et à Pierre-Auguste Renoir, p. 27.
159
See Renoir’s letters to Morisot after her husband’s death in Morisot, Correspondence, pp. 191–212.
160
Ibid., p. 144.
161
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1603; Delteil, Le Peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 17, pl. 3, etching.
162
Renoir to Stéphane Mallarmé, n.l., n.d. [c. 1890], in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 178. Although Durand-Ruel planned several painter-printmaker exhibitions, Renoir’s etching was not in fact included.
163
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