41
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 2 January 1909, in ibid., p. 55.
42
Schnerb, ‘Visites à Renoir et à Rodin’, p. 175, referring to The Reclining Nude, 1903, exhibited at the Salon d’Automne of 1905, and Seated Woman in Oriental Costume, c. 1905–7, Dauberville, vol. 4, pls 3502, 3480, respectively.
43
Unpublished, Renoir and Gabrielle to Rivière, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [c. 11 January 1908], Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Fondation Custodia (Collection F. Lugt).
44
Renoir to Aline, Paris, 22 February 1904, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 222.
45
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 11 February 1909, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 41.
46
Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 100; Drucker, Renoir, p. 221.
47
C.-L. de Moncade, ‘Le Peintre Renoir et le Salon d’Automne’, quoted in Renoir, Écrits, entretiens et lettres, pp. 9, 10; trans. in White, Impressionism in Perspective, pp. 23, 24.
48
Dauberville, vol.. 1, pls 224, 254.
49
White, Impressionism in Perspective, p. 24.
50
Renoir quoted in Schnerb, diary entry of 27 June 1909, repr. in ‘Visites à Renoir et à Rodin’, p. 176.
51
Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Lagarde-Samary sale, 25–7 March 1903, including Renoir’s Woman with a Fan, bought by Paul Rosenberg for 10,000 francs, Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 344.
52
Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Cagnes, 25 April 1903, in Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, pp. 100–01.
53
Purchased from the Charpentier estate sale after the deaths of M. Charpentier in 1905 and Mme Charpentier in 1904. Bénédite, ‘Madame Charpentier and her Children by Auguste Renoir’, pp. 237, 240.
54
Georges Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 13 March 1901, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, pp. 148–9.
55
Unpublished, Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, March 1903, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
56
See Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [after 26 December 1903], in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 209; see also Distel, Renoir, p. 329.
57
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Le Cannet, 10 February 1903, private collection.
58
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 24 December 1903, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 51.
59
Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 23 December 1903, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, pp. 201–2.
60
Unpublished, Renoir to André, Le Cannet, 2 March 1903, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
61
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 13 January 1904; Cagnes, 10 February 1904, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, pp. 211, 218.
62
See Distel, Renoir, p. 329.
63
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Le Cannet, 9 March 1902, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, pp. 169–70.
64
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Essoyes], 20 September 1904, in ibid., p. 239.
65
Moncade, ‘Le Peintre Renoir et le Salon d’Automne’, p. 11; trans. in White, Impressionism in Perspective, p. 24.
66
House and Distel, Renoir, pp. 316–17: in 1902, Durand-Ruel exhibited 47 works; in 1903, 23; in 1904, 69; in 1905, 70; in 1906, 22; in 1907, 86; in 1908, 165 (in Paris and New York); in 1909, 32.
67
The Bernheims seem to have sold their first Renoir in 1897; see Distel, ‘Vollard and the Impressionists’, p. 146.
68
Renoir to Alexandre Bernheim, Cagnes, 6 December 1909, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 38.
69
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, [Cannes], 25 April 1901, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, pp. 155–6. L’Abbé Gauguin’s art collection sold for 127,400 francs in May 1901.
70
Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 4 May 1901, in ibid., p. 157.
71
For Renoir to Bernheim from 1898 onwards see Dauberville, vol. 1, pp. 21–86.
72
Unpublished, Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, March 1903, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
73
Unpublished, Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 22 December 1908, in ibid.
74
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 25 December 1908, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 35.
75
See Georges Durand-Ruel to Renoir, Paris, 10 January 1911, in ibid., p. 71.
76
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Bourbonne-les-Bains], 4 September 1904, in ibid., vol. 1, p. 232.
77
Redon to Mlle Paule Gobillard, Cannes, 26 February 1901, in Redon, Lettres d’Odilon Redon, p. 46.
78
Renoir to Bérard, Essoyes, 22 September 1903, excerpt in Paris, Librairie de l’Abbaye, n.d., sale catalogue 246, no. 231.
79
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot, 4 May 1909, private collection.
80
Unpublished, André to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [May 1908], in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
81
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 16 February 1905, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 53.
82
Renoir to Ferdinand Deconchy (on whom see n. 113 below), n.l., 14 July 1904, excerpt in Berlin, Stargardt, 24–5 November 1964, sale catalogue no. 570, no. 903.
83
Renoir to André, Bourbonne-les-Bains, 16 August 1904, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 223.
84
Unpublished, Renoir to André, Bourbonne-les-Bains, 17 August 1904, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel Archives.
85
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Baudot, Bourbonne-les-Bains, 30 August 1904, private collection.
86
Renoir to Vollard, Aix-les-Bains, 5 May 1901, in Drucker, Renoir, p. 141.
87
Renoir to Julie Manet Rouart, Essoyes, 23 September 1904, in Roger-Marx, Renoir, p. 83.
88
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Essoyes], 18 September 1904, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 237.
89
Dauberville, vol. 4, pls 3473–6, 3523.
90
Ibid., vol. 1, pl. 583; vol. 2, pl. 1292, respectively.
91
Renoir to Paule Gobillard, Cagnes, 4 January 1907, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 235.
92
Unpublished, Georges Rivière to Renoir, n.l. [Paris], 28 February 1908, private collection.
93
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 603.
94
Wyzewa, diary entry of 29 January 1903, in Wadley, Renoir: A Retrospective, p. 234.
95
For the portraits of Mme Fritz (Betty) Thurneyssen see Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3139. Rubens paintings in the Pinakothek: Rubens and Isabella Brant in the Honeysuckle Bower, Hélène Fourment in her Bridal Gown, Madonna in a Garland of Flowers, The Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus, The Death of Seneca, The Drunken Silenus, The Battle of the Amazons, The Great Last Judgment, The Entombment of Christ, The Fall of the Damned, The Massacre of Innocents, Landscape with Herd of Cows; oil sketches: Lion Hunt and The Landing in Marseilles and Council of the Gods for the Medici Cycle.
96
Pach, ‘Pierre-Auguste Renoir’, repr. in Wadley, Renoir: A Retrospective, p. 245; French in Renoir, Écrits, entretiens et lettres, p. 14.
97
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3471.
98
For Renoir’s studies for Judgment of Paris see Dauberville, vol. 4, pls 3566, 3567, 3582.
99
Ibid., pl. 3519; Anacreon (582–485 BC).
100
For a
male river god, oil study, 55 cm × 1.5 cm, see Paris, Documentation Orsay.
101
Unpublished, Renoir to Georges Rivière, n.l., n.d. [c. 1908], private collection.
102
Renoir to a male friend, Cagnes, 12 November 1908, excerpt in Paris, Charavay, November 1959, sale catalogue 702, no. 27.443.
103
Renoir to Marguerite Cornillac [Maleck], Cagnes, 9 April 1903, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 48.
104
La Grande Louise was Marie Louise Petit, née Goyard (1866–1926), a cook who stayed with the Renoirs until her death. Clément Munier was the caretaker of the Essoyes house. Unpublished, Renoir to Aline, n.l., 11 July 1908, private collection.
105
Renoir records a ‘Mlle. Georgette Maliverney, chez Mme. Charlet, rue Marie Stuart, 21’; notebook, n.d., n.p. [p. 16], private collection. By 1908, Georgette (b. 1872) was living with Raoul Dupuy (b. 1873), a decorative painter from Grenoble, and called herself Georgette Dupuy, or Mme Raoul Dupuy, though they did not marry until December 1915. See Gélineau, Jeanne Tréhot, la fille cachée, pp. 56–7.
106
Pharisien, Quand Renoir vint paysanner, pp. 47–8, 57. In an email to the author on 25 February 2017, Bernard Pharisien, Essoyes native and scholar, said that his recent research shows that renovations began in 1898 and were completed a few years afterwards.
107
See Paris, Hôtel Drouot, Gangnat collection, 24–5 June 1925.
108
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3438.
109
Unpublished, Renoir to Maurice Gangnat, Cagnes, 1 January 1907, private collection.
110
Dauberville, vol. 4, pls 3251, 3252.
111
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat, Cagnes, 2 March 1907, private collection.
112
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat, Cagnes, 24 March 1907, private collection.
113
Mlle Savournin, whose parents owned the elegant Hotel Savournin in Cagnes, had married Ferdinand Deconchy, a painter friend of Renoir’s, in 1894; later, he was mayor of Cagnes in 1912–19.
114
Claude Renoir, ‘Une visite’, Renoir aux Collettes, 2 (1961), n.p. For the purchase see Isabelle Pintus, ‘Sur les traces de Renoir dans les archives’, p. 130.
115
See Pharisien, Quand Renoir vint paysanner, p. 65.
116
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 15 November 1908, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 34.
117
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Montreuil, 9 November 1909, private collection.
118
The first Paris subway system, the ‘métro’ (métropolitain), opened on 19 July 1900; Pigalle station, near Renoir’s apartment and studio, opened in 1902.
119
Schnerb, diary entry of 27 June 1909, repr. in ‘Visites à Renoir et à Rodin’, p. 176.
120
Jeanne Baudot wrote of Aline’s dishes in Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, pp. 68–9.
121
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 25 March 1907, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 10.
122
Renoir to Julie Manet Rouart, Cagnes, 20 March 1908, in Renoir, Écrits, entretiens et lettres, p. 151.
123
Renoir to Victor Mottez, n.l., 10 July 1909, excerpt in Paris, Librairie L’Echiquier, n.d., sale catalogue, no. 13.
124
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Vollard, n.l., n.d. [c. 13 June 1911], in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm. Renoir and Gabrielle to Maurice Gangnat, Wessling, summer 1910, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 245.
125
Denis, Journal, entry of March 1906, vol. 2, p. 35.
126
Renoir to Paule Gobillard, Cagnes, 1908, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 241 n. 83.
127
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3315.
128
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat, Cagnes, 12 and 19 February 1908, private collection.
129
Renoir to Julie Manet Rouart, Cagnes, 20 March 1908, in Braun, Renoir, p. 12.
130
Unpublished, Renoir to Rivière, Cagnes, 26 March 1908, private collection.
131
Unpublished, Aline to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 23 October 1908, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
132
Unpublished, Renoir to Rivière, 3 August 1909, in University of Texas, Austin, archives.
133
Unpublished, Renoir to Mme Gangnat, n.l., 9 November 1909, private collection.
134
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3389; Edmond Renoir became engaged to Hélène Rivière at that time.
135
Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, p. 279.
136
Ibid., p. 284.
137
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 114; for Young Woman Seated Outdoors, Young Woman Seated Inside and Woman and Child see Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, pp. 283, 301, no. 167 (Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 [5, 2], fol. 170).
138
Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, p. 283.
139
Ibid., pp. 280, 301 n. 105 (Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 [4, 10], pp. 1–2).
140
Ibid., p. 281: on 16–17 February 1906, he bought two pastel heads for 1,000 francs from an Hôtel Drouot auction.
141
Unpublished, Renoir to André, Bourbonne-les-Bains, 17 August 1904, in Paris, Institut Néerlandais, Fondation Custodia (Collection F. Lugt).
142
Rewald, Cézanne: A Biography, pp. 254–5.
143
Cézanne to Gasquet, Aix-en-Provence, 8 July 1902, in Cézanne, Paul Cézanne: Correspondance, p. 289.
144
Delteil, Peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 17, pl. 34; Stella, Graphic Work of Renoir, pl. 34.
145
Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pl. XXVI.
146
Distel, Renoir, p. 391 n. 28, citing Rewald, The Paintings of Paul Cézanne, no. 485, Cottages in Auvers-sur-Oise, c. 1872–73; no. 539, House among the Trees, 1881; Turn in the Road at La Roche-Guyon, 1885; Battle of Love, 1880; Rewald, Les Aquarelles de Cézanne, no. 107, Jug and Bowls; no. 132, Bathers.
147
Renoir to Monet, Cagnes, 6 December 1909, in Baudot, Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles, pp. 110–11.
148
Unpublished, Alice Monet to Germaine Salerou, Giverny, 22 October 1905, private collection.
149
Unpublished, Alice Monet to Germaine Salerou, Giverny, 25 October 1906, ibid.
150
Unpublished, Alice Monet to Germaine Salerou, n.l. [Paris], 26 October 1906, ibid. For the lost drawing of Monet see White, Impressionists Side by Side, p. 104.
151
Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pl. 25.
152
Stella, Graphic Work of Renoir, pls 37, 337–48, respectively; Delteil, Peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 17, pls 37–48.
153
White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 228.
154
Rabinow, Cézanne to Picasso, p. 280.
155
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3388.
156
Renoir to Vollard, Cagnes, 5 May 1908, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 241.
157
Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3392. Héran, ‘Vollard, Publisher of Maillol’s Bronzes’, pp. 172–81. Maillol completed the statue in 1900.
158
Frère, Conversations de Maillol, pp. 237–8.
159
Ibid.
160
Renoir to Vollard, Essoyes, 12 September 1906, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 235.
161
Frère, Conversations de Maillol, pp. 237–8.
162
&nbs
p; Héran, ‘Vollard, Publisher of Maillol’s Bronzes’, p. 176.
163
Frère, Conversations de Maillol, pp. 238–9.
164
Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pl. III, d. 21.5 cm (8½ in.); pl. IV, 26 cm (10¼ in.).
165
Dauberville, vol. 1, pl. 479.
166
Unpublished, André to Durand-Ruel, n.l., 2 April 1903, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
167
See Yeatman, Albert André, pp. 26, 83 (André’s Vue des Collettes, 1908).
168
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, Cannes le Cannet, Villa Printemps, 3 February 1902, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 1, p. 165.
169
Unpublished, André to Durand-Ruel, n.l., 2 March 1902, Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
170
Yeatman, Albert André, p. 24 (Renoir Seated in the Garden, 1901).
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