99
Bailey, ‘Renoir’s Portrait of his Sister-in-Law’, p. 686.
100
See Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 6; also Melanson, ‘The Influence of Jewish Patrons on Renoir’s Stylistic Transformation in the Mid-1880s’.
101
Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 1207, 1260.
102
Renoir, ‘La Société des Irrégularistes’, n.d. [May 1884], in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 1, p. 129.
103
See Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 268 n. 7.
104
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entry of 11 October 1897, p. 113; French edn, Journal, p. 135. Félix Fénéon was an anarchist and critic who in 1884 founded La Revue indépendante; he also worked for Bernheim-Jeune.
105
Paul Signac, diary entry of 11 February 1898, quoted in Correspondance de Pissarro, vol. 4, p. 455 n. 1.
106
Shikes and Harper, Pissarro: His Life and Work, p. 307.
107
Dauberville, vol. 3, pl. 2559.
108
See Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. 5, pp. 385, 390–91.
109
Dauberville, vol. 1, pp. 21–70; 5 letters from Renoir to Bernheim written by Gabrielle, pp. 72–80; 3 letters from Renoir to Bernheim written by Pierre Renoir, pp. 81–4.
110
See ibid., pp. 13, 298; the Bernheims sold it in 1940 to a Brazilian collector who in 1952 sold it to the São Paulo Museum of Art. See also Ch. 2 n. 118 above.
111
Guy-Patrice Dauberville, Bernheim-Jeune & Cie, Paris, to the author, 5 October 2012.
112
E.g., Renoir to M. Bernheim, n.l., 1898, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 23.
113
Ibid., p. 100.
114
Unpublished, Renoir to Gallimard, Grasse, 28 January 1900, private collection.
115
See Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 217.
116
Renoir to Geffroy, Paris, 10 July 1896, excerpt from Charavay, 6 April 1981, no. 257.
117
As noted by Manet, Journal, entry of 6 October 1896, p. 113 (not in Eng. edn).
118
Ibid., entry of 20 October 1898, p. 198; Growing up with the Impressionists, p. 148.
119
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Amsterdam, n.d. [October 1898], in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 101.
120
Girard, Renoir et Albert André, p. 11.
121
Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, ‘Renoir’, pp. 298.
122
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 582.
123
Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, pp. 144, 275, 398.
124
Pissarro to his son Lucien, Paris, 21 November 1895, in Correspondance de Camille Pissarro, vol. 4, p. 119.
125
Pissarro to Lucien, Paris, 20 January 1896, in ibid., vol. 4, p. 153.
126
Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, p. 276. On 22 October 1895, Vollard bought from Renoir 2 paintings, 5 pastels and 5 pages of drawings for 600 francs; five days later he bought 8 more paintings for 800 francs.
127
Ibid., pp. 275–6, 277. Renoir also exchanged one of his works portraying a woman’s head for a small still life by Cézanne; Cézanne Watercolors, cat. no. 7, p. 25.
128
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 264.
129
Stella, Graphic Work of Renoir, pls 6–8; Delteil, Peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 17, pls 6–8; see related oil study, c. 1895–7, in Dauberville, vol. 3, pl. 2059. Geffroy, La Vie artistique, n.p.
130
Stella, Graphic Work of Renoir, pls 29, 30; Delteil, Peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 17, pls 29, 30.
131
Ambroise Vollard, L’Album des Peintres-graveurs, 1896, and L’Album d’estampes originales de la Galérie Vollard, 1898.
132
See Ch. 2 nn. 105–7 above.
133
Georges Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 21 September 1897, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 100.
134
Unpublished, Aline to Vollard, Essoyes, 7 September 1897, Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
135
Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, p. 146.
136
Ibid., p. 149, n. 15.
137
Ibid., p. 277.
138
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entries of 17 November, 23 December 1897, pp. 118, 121; French edn, Journal, pp. 141, 145–6.
139
Manet, Journal, entry of September 1897, p. 130 (not in Eng. edn).
140
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, addendum of August 1961, p. 81; French edn, Journal, p. 75.
141
Manet, Journal, entry of 17 August 1895, p. 60 (not in Eng. edn).
142
Ibid., pp. 60–61.
143
Ibid., entry of 23 December 1897, p. 146.
144
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, n.l., 31 March 1900, private collection.
145
Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, p. 84.
146
Renoir to Bérard, Cagnes, n.d. [1899], excerpt from Hôtel Drouot sale catalogue, 11 June 1980, no. 98.
147
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entry of 5 February 1898, p. 127; French edn, Journal, p. 152.
148
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Magagnosc, Grasse, 16 December 1900, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 141.
149
Unpublished, Albert André to Durand-Ruel, n.l., 17 December 1900, Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
150
Renoir to unknown friend, Paris, c. 1898, excerpt from Charavay, January 1997, no. 45185.
151
Renoir to Bérard, n.l. [Louveciennes], July 1895, excerpt from New York, Swann Auction House, 17 May 1951, no. 117.
152
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, addendum of August 1961, p. 81; French edn, Journal, p. 75.
153
Ibid., entry of 4 July 1898, p. 139; French edn, Journal, p. 169.
154
Ibid., entry of 29 November 1895, p. 76; French edn, Journal, p. 74.
155
See Pharisien, Renoir de vigne en vin, p. 29.
156
Renoir to Julie Manet, Louveciennes, 5 September 1898, in Braun, Renoir, p. 10.
157
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entry of 18 October 1896, p. 104; French edn, Journal, p. 116.
158
Georges Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 21 September 1897, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 100.
159
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entry of 18 October 1896, p. 104; French edn, Journal, p. 116.
160
Ibid., entry of 16 October 1897, p. 114; French edn, Journal, p. 136.
161
Ibid., entry of 16 June 1898, p. 138; French edn, Journal, p. 167; Jean holding a Hoop, Dauberville, vol. 3, pl. 2377.
162
Manet, Journal, entry of 16 December 1896, p. 119 (not in Eng. edn).
163
Ibid., entry of 2 July 1898, p. 168; Growing up with the Impressionists, p. 138.
164
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Berneval, n.d. [July 1898]; Grasse, 31 March 1900, private collection.
165
Renoir to Monet, n.l. [Paris], 16 March 1895, excerpt from Artcurial, 13 December 2006, no. 258.
166
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entry of 3 December 1895, p. 78; French edn, Journal, p. 74.
167
Unpublished, Renoir to Congé, n.l., 1 February
1896, in Los Angeles, Getty Research Institute, CJPV87-A603.
168
Renoir to Murer, Paris, 4 February 1897, in Gachet, Lettres impressionnistes, p. 110.
169
Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Grasse, n.d. [c. February 1900], in Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, p. 87.
170
Dauberville, vol. 3, pl. 2041.
171
Ibid., pls 2374, 2363, 2479, 2548, respectively.
172
Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 28.
173
Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entry of 10 August 1895, p. 62; French edn, Journal, p. 58.
174
Ibid., addendum of August 1961, p. 81; French edn, Journal, p. 75.
175
Ibid., entry of 24 September 1895, p. 68; French edn, Journal, p. 67.
176
Ibid., entry of 27 October 1895, p. 70 (not in Eng. edn).
177
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [April 1899], in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 113.
178
Unpublished notes, Aline to Bérard, n.l., c. 1898, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
179
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Grasse, 7 February 1900, private collection.
180
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Grasse, 31 March 1900, private collection.
181
Pharisien and Chartrand, Victor Charigot, p. 102.
182
Jean to Pierre Renoir, 8 May 1946, quoted in ibid., p. 73.
183
Ibid., pp. 104, 129.
184
Renoir to Julie Manet, Grasse, 17 January 1900, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 217.
185
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Avignon], 24 May 1900, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 135.
186
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Grasse, 30 May 1900, excerpt from Berlin, Stargardt, November 1962, catalogue no. 559, no. 563.
187
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., n.d. [c. 9 February 1899], private collection.
188
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., n.d. [early February 1899], private collection.
189
Ibid.
190
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l. [Paris], 9 February 1899, private collection.
191
Unpublished, Vollard to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Paris, 9 February 1899, private collection.
192
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne, see n. 190 above.
193
Ibid.
194
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet., n.l. [Louveciennes], 15 August 1900, private collection.
195
This is confirmed by Renoir’s letter to Jeanne in 1908 in which he writes about repairing and hiring out the oven; Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Bourbonne-les-Bains, n.d. [August 1908], in Gélineau, Jeanne Tréhot, la fille cachée, p. 50.
196
Unpublished, Renoir to Louis Robinet, Grasse, 1 February 1901, private collection.
Chapter 5 1901–09
1
Renoir to unidentified male friend, Paris, 4 September 1901, in Dauberville, vol. 1, pp. 29–30.
2
Extract from birth certificate, Département de l’Aube, Arrondissement de Troyes, Canton d’Essoyes, Commune d’Essoyes, 4 August 1901, 6 p.m., ‘Born in our commune, Claude Renoir, of masculine sex, from Pierre-Auguste Renoir, artist painter, and Aline Victorine Renoir, without profession.’
3
Unpublished, Renoir to Mme Baudot, Essoyes, 4 August 1901, private collection.
4
Renoir to Téodor de Wyzewa, n.l., 7 August 1901, trans. excerpt in Boston, Mass., Rendell sale catalogue 129, c. 1977, no. 370.
5
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Essoyes, 8 August 1901, private collection.
6
Aline’s father’s full name was Claude-Victor Charigot, and his older brother, with whom Aline lived when her mother left Essoyes, was Claude; Pharisien, Célébrités d’Essoyes, pp. 19–20.
7
See n. 5 above.
8
Baptism certificate, 21 August 1902, private collection.
9
Customarily, the Renoir family took a train from Paris and the Muniers picked them up at the railway station.
10
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3443.
11
Renée Jolivet was born in Châtillon-sur-Seine on 20 December 1885, was married twice and died in 1973. See Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, pp. 236, 330 nn. 14, 15.
12
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3125.
13
Coco wears the same outfit in a photograph of 1902; Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, p. 331, fig. 290.
14
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3124.
15
For the two paintings on the same wall see Bailey, Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting, p. 168, fig. 2.
16
For Renoir’s military record book see Ch. 1 n. 140 above. Aline’s blue eyes and red hair are evident in her 1885 portrait (Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1066 is in black and white). Unpublished military record book of Jean Renoir, 1913–40, Paris, Service Historique de l’Armée de Terre, dossier 41/9912, copy courtesy of private collection; later, Jean developed Aline’s robust plumpness.
17
Renoir to P. Alfred Cheramy, Le Cannet, 25 February 1902, excerpt from Paris, Charavay, leaflet, September 1975, no. 36688.
18
For Sainte-Croix see Ch. 4 p. 212 above.
19
Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, n.l. [Essoyes], August 1903, in Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, p. 100.
20
Renoir stayed in Bourbonne-les-Bains from 12 August to 15 September 1904; see Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, pp. 228–34.
21
Renoir to Mlle Cornillac [Maleck], n.l. [Essoyes], n.d. [21 August 1901], in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 46.
22
Josse Bernheim-Jeune (b. 1870) married Mathilde Adler (b. 1882) and Gaston (also b. 1870), married Suzanne (b. 1883).
23
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, (Cannes) Le Cannet, 25 March 1903, private collection.
24
Renoir to Paul Durand-Ruel, Cannes le Cannet, 3 February 1902, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 165.
25
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, (Cannes) Le Cannet, 26 March 1902, private collection.
26
Unpublished, Albert André to Durand-Ruel, n.l., 2 March [1902], in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
27
Renoir to Aline, Paris, 22 February 1904, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 222.
28
Renoir to Marguerite Cornillac [Maleck], n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [9 April 1903], in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 48.
29
Renoir to Wyzewa, Paris, 1 May 1902, trans. excerpt from Rendell, sale catalogue 107, n.d., no. 231.
30
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 4 December 1903, private collection.
31
Renoir to Georges Rivière, Cagnes, 29 February 1908, excerpt from Berlin, Stargardt, March 1988, sale catalogue 641, no. 708.
32
Unpublished, Renoir to Maurice Gangnat, Paris, 2 September 1908, private collection.
33
Unpublished, Renoir and Gabrielle to Gangnat, Wessling, summer 1910, private collection.
34
Renoir to Rivière, Bourbonne-les-Bains, 25 August 1906, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 234.
35
E.g., the artist Jacques-Félix Schnerb, ‘Visites à Renoir et à Rodin’, p. 175, ‘one of Renoir’s maids’ (d
iary entry, February 1907).
36
Julie Manet, Growing up with the Impressionists, entry of 10 August 1895, p. 62; French edn, Journal, p. 58.
37
Renoir and Gabrielle to Gangnat, Wessling, summer 1910, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 245.
38
Gabrielle to Marguerite Cornillac, Cagnes, 14 November 1905, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 54.
39
Renoir to M. Bernheim, Cagnes, 23 January 1906, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 33.
40
Renoir to Marguerite Cornillac, n.l. [Cagnes], 15 April 1904, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 52.
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