50
The Barnes Foundation, formerly in Merion, PA, now in the centre of Philadelphia.
51
Drucker, Renoir, pp. 221–2. Paintings were exhibited in Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the USA.
52
Mirbeau, Renoir.
53
Gustave Coquiot, Rodin (Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1915), with sanguine drawing of the sculptor by Renoir reproduced as the frontispiece; see also White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 286. In 1915–17, Vollard used this drawing as the basis for a medallion of the sculptor; Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pl. XXVII.
54
Renoir to Bernheim, Nice, 12 November 1913, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 49.
55
Unpublished, Gustave Coquiot to Rodin, Paris, 8 March [1914], in Paris, Musée Rodin, Archives.
56
Dauberville, vol. 5, pl. 4424; see unpublished, Renoir to M. Bernheim, Cagnes, n.d. [c. 1914], in Paris, Archives Bernheim-Jeune.
57
Delteil, Peintre-graveur illustré, vol. 17, pl. 49; Stella, Graphic Work of Renoir, pl. 49; Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, éditeur, p. 146. Renoir’s role in making black-and-white as well as colour lithographs from 1898 onwards was described in a 1911 letter from Vollard to A. M. Gutbier, repr. in Distel, Renoir, p. 308.
58
Unpublished, Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, Grasse, 30 April [1913], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 11.
59
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 17 November 1914, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 272.
60
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 2 January 1910, in ibid., p. 245.
61
Mirbeau, Renoir, pp. ix, xi.
62
Renoir to Vollard, Nice, 25 January 1914, Eng trans. excerpt in New York, Lucien Goldschmidt and Pierre Brès, sale catalogue 5, 1941, no. 215.
63
Aline to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 10 February 1911, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 73.
64
Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, pp. 246, 335 n. 1.
65
See Herbert, Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, p. 189 n. 3. Renoir calls attention to the Raphael in a note to his ‘Lettre d’Auguste Renoir à Henri Mottez’, 1910.
66
André, Renoir, p. 36. The Louvre’s Veronese, Wedding Feast at Cana (1562–63), is 677 × 994 cm (266½ × 391 in.).
67
Pach, ‘Pierre-Auguste Renoir’, p. 614.
68
Cennini’s book contains both medieval and Renaissance workshop precepts to teach craftsmen working under a master making frescoes. In 1858, the painter Victor Mottez, a former pupil of Ingres who was particularly interested in frescoed architectural decoration, translated Cennini’s book into French. Mottez had died in 1897. Mottez’s son Henri and Renoir had decided to reissue the French translation in homage to Victor Mottez. See White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 250.
69
Henri Mottez to Albert Chapon (an editor at Bibliothèque de l’Occident), n.l., 19 November 1909, in ibid., p. 250. In March 1910, Denis visited Mottez in Nice and Renoir in Cagnes and they discussed the essay, and in August, Denis sent Renoir’s eight-page preface to Chapon; ibid., pp. 250–55. See also Herbert, Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, pp. 158–91.
70
‘Renoir’s Published Letter to Henri Mottez, 1910’, preface to Cennino Cennini, Le Livre de l’art ou traité de la peinture, in Herbert, Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, p. 190; Fr. ‘Lettre d’Auguste Renoir à Henri Mottez’, p. 260.
71
Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1958), p. 147; French edn, p. 160.
72
‘Renoir’s Published Letter to Henri Mottez, 1910’, in Herbert, Renoir’s Writings on the Decorative Arts, p. 188, Fr. ‘Lettre d’Auguste Renoir à Henri Mottez’, p. 258.
73
According to Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pp. 24, 39–40, pls VIII, IX, Renoir made a soft-wax tiny head of the variant of the small version of Venus, c. 1913, h. 16.5 cm (6½ in.).
74
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 28 April 1914, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 261.
75
Renoir to Vollard, Cagnes, 19 April 1914, in Eng. in Johnson, Ambroise Vollard, p. 41.
76
Unpublished, Rivière to Jean Renoir, Paris, 29 October 1914, private collection.
77
See White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 255 for repro. of 1913 version; p. 236 for 1908 version. The 1913 version is more crowded, including a flying Mercury and a distant Greek temple; Renoir also changed the stances of the two left-hand nudes.
78
Gabrielle to Bernheim-Jeune, Cagnes, n.d. [1913], in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 72. Both versions are similar in size: the 1908 is 82 × 101.6 cm (32¼ × 40 in.); the 1913, 72 × 92 cm (28⅜ × 36¼ in.), ibid., vol. 5, pl. 4278.
79
For the Paris busts, both 1915, see Haesaerts, Renoir Sculptor, pls XXXIII, XXXIV, XXXVII.
80
For the small Venus statuette see n. 73 above; for the medium-size Venus, 1913, 61 cm (24 in.), see ibid., pls V–VII; for the large statue, 1915–16, see pls XIV–XXI.
81
Small bas-relief, 1915, unpublished, see ibid., p. 40; large high-relief, 1916, pls X–XIII.
82
For repro. of the watercolour, 30.5 × 23 cm (12 × 9 in.), see White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, pp. 244, 261.
83
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 16 February 1914, in ibid., p. 264; the Venus of Arles is 193 cm (76 in.); Venus de Medici, 152.4 cm (60 in.).
84
Cassatt to Durand-Ruel, Grasse, spring 1914, in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 2, p. 135.
85
Unpublished, Jean Renoir to Guino, Cagnes, 27 October 1913, in Boston Public Library, archives. The ‘Renée’ mentioned was perhaps Renée Jolivet, who had been Coco’s nursemaid.
86
Renoir to Vollard, Nice, 25 January 1914, in White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 264.
87
See Jean Renoir, Renoir, My Father (1958), p. 355.
88
Dauberville, vol. 2, pl. 1005.
89
Renoir to Aline, Cagnes, 24 June 1911, in La Maison de Renoir aux Collettes, p. 18, repro. of letter.
90
Renoir to André, Nice, 16 January 1914, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 58.
91
Cassatt to Joseph Durand-Ruel, Grasse, 17 February [1914], trans. in Cassatt and Her Circle, p. 315.
92
Renoir to Arsène Alexandre with note from Gabrielle on the back, Cagnes, 12 May 1912, in Maison de Renoir aux Collettes, p. 17.
93
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Vollard, Croissy-sur-Seine, n.d. [20 August 1911], in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
94
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat with note from Gabrielle on the back, Wessling, Germany, n.d. [August 1910], private collection.
95
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.
96
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat, n.l. [Cagnes], 18 February 1913, private collection.
97
Unpublished, Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, Grasse, 30 April [1913], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 11.
98
Aline to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 22 April 1914, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 142. Unpublished receipt, Aline to Vollard, n.l., 19 January 1900, in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
99
Unpublished, Cassatt to Louisine Havem
eyer, Mesnil-Beaufresne, 6 September [1912], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 10.
100
Unpublished, Renoir to Gangnat, Cagnes, 24 November 1910, private collection.
101
Unpublished, Aline to Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 11 March 1911, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
102
Unpublished, Aline to Vollard, Essoyes, 19 August 1913, in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
103
Lucienne Bralet was a chambermaid at Les Collettes who later took care of Pierre’s son Claude, and posed for Renoir.
104
Madeleine Bruno quoted in Pharisien, Célébrités d’Essoyes, p. 121.
105
Unpublished, Renoir to Paule Gobillard, Cagnes, 16 December 1912, private collection.
106
Edmond Jr modelled for Renoir during his childhood; see Dauberville, vol. 2, pls 1268, 1269, 1271–4, 1399.
107
Unpublished, Rivière to Aline Charigot, Paris, 20 November 1912, private collection.
108
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 28 November 1912, private collection.
109
Unpublished, Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, Grasse, 27 February [1913], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 11.
110
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Vollard, Croissy-sur-Seine, n.d. [26 August 1911], in Paris, des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
111
Cassatt to Durand-Ruel, Grasse, 17 February [1915], in Venturi, Archives de l’impressionnisme, vol. 2, pp. 135–6.
112
Unpublished, Cassatt to Louisine Havemeyer, Mesnil-Beaufresne, 16 July [1913], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 11.
113
Unpublished, Cassatt to Havemeyer, Grasse, 28 December [1913], in ibid.
114
Henry Dauberville, La Bataille de l’impressionnisme, p. 215.
115
Renoir to Georges Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 20 December 1913, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 135.
116
Cassatt to Havemeyer, Grasse, 11 January [1914], in Cassatt and Her Circle, p. 308, where it is misdated 11 January 1913.
117
Joseph Durand-Ruel to Georges Durand-Ruel, Nice, 20 April 1914, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 258 n. 172.
118
Unpublished, Cassatt to Havemeyer, Grasse, 12 March [1915], in New York, Metropolitan Museum, Archives, Box 1, Folder 13.
119
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Vollard, Cagnes, n.d. [c. 1910], in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm (dating from mention of Gaston Bernheim’s visit to Cagnes for Renoir to paint a portrait of his wife; see Dauberville, vol. 4, pl. 3143).
120
Unpublished will of Jeanne Marguerite Tréhot, Madré, 12 June 1913, private collection.
121
Unpublished, Rivière to Renoir, Paris, 21 December 1913, private collection.
122
André, Renoir, p. 37.
123
Conrad Hensler Slade (1871–1950) came from a distinguished Boston family. His father, Daniel Dennison Slade (1823–96), was a physician at Harvard Medical School who worked with the renowned scientist Louis Agassiz, and was a friend of Oliver Wendell Holmes and Longfellow. After Conrad graduated from Harvard College in 1894, he went to Paris to study sculpture but decided he did not want to be a sculptor. He then returned to Boston to study architecture but soon abandoned that and in 1896 returned permanently to Paris where he embarked on a career as a painter.
124
Unpublished, Conrad Slade to his mother, Cagnes, 1906, private collection.
125
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Jeanne Tréhot, Cagnes, 8 December 1913, private collection (‘Hôtel Savournin, Cagnes [Alpes-Maritimes], Ouvert Toute l’Année, Téléphone No. 9’).
126
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet with note from Gabrielle up the side with confirmation of 100 francs, n.l., 28 December 1910, private collection.
127
Unpublished draft of will of Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, Madré, n.d. [c. 1914], private collection.
128
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot, n.l., n.d. [c. 1908–10], private collection.
129
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., July 1910, private collection.
130
Unpublished, Georgette Dupuy to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l. [Paris], n.d. [July 1910], private collection. In August 1910, Renoir accepted the invitation of Dr Fritz Thurneyssen and spent the month in Wessling-am-See near Munich. Gabrielle, Aline, Pierre, Jean, Coco and Renée Rivière went too. Renoir painted Mme Thurneyssen and her Daughter and Portrait of Wilhelm Muhlfeld, Dauberville, vol. 4, pls 3139, 3395; see also Bailey, Renoir’s Portraits, pp. 252–8.
131
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l. [Wessling], n.d. [August 1910], private collection.
132
Unpublished, Renoir to Jeanne Tréhot Robinet, n.l., 28 December 1910, private collection.
133
Renoir to Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 12 January 1912, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 88.
134
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Vollard, n.l. [Cagnes], n.d. [c. 1912]; in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
135
Renoir to Georges Durand-Ruel, n.l. [Cagnes], 25 March 1915, in Correspondance de Renoir et Durand-Ruel, vol. 2, p. 158.
136
Renoir to Paul Durand-Ruel, Cagnes, 14 February 1910, in ibid., p. 52.
137
Renoir to André, Cagnes, 19 March 1913, in ‘Lettres de Renoir à quelques amis’, p. 57. Coco’s communion took place on 22 May 1913.
138
Jean Renoir to Coco Renoir, n.l. [Joigny], 19 May 1913, in Jean Renoir Letters, p. 4; French edn, Jean Renoir, Correspondance, p. 4.
139
Renoir to Arsène Alexandre with note from Gabrielle on back, Cagnes, 12 May 1912, in Maison de Renoir aux Collettes, p. 17.
140
Renoir to Bernheim, Cagnes, 12 November 1913, in Dauberville, vol. 1, p. 49.
141
See unpublished postcard, Pierre Renoir to Vollard, Paris, n.d. [c. 1910], in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
142
Unpublished, Gabrielle to Vollard, n.l., n.d. [c. 13 June 1911], in ibid.
143
Unpublished, Aline to Paul Durand-Ruel, Essoyes, 8 September 1912, in Paris, Archives Durand-Ruel.
144
Renoir to Monet, n.l. [Paris], 25 August 1911, excerpt in Paris, Artcurial sale catalogue, 13 December 2006, no. 273.
145
Unpublished, Pierre Renoir to Vollard, Paris, 30 April 1910, in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms 421 on microfilm.
146
Unpublished, Pierre Renoir to Vollard, n.l. [Paris], n.d. [c. 1910], in ibid.
147
Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, pp. 484–7.
148
Ibid., p. 449.
149
Unpublished, Rivière to Aline Charigot, Paris, 20 November 1912, private collection. The play was by Arthur Bernède and Aristide Bruant.
150
Reviews by Pierre Gilbert and Edmond Sée, respectively, in Comoedia 1912, quoted in Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 69. The Latin comoedia, like the French comédie, encompasses comedy, drama and tragedy.
151
Reviews by Georges Casella in Comoedia 1913, quoted in ibid., p. 76.
152
Dauberville, vol. 5, pls 4077, 4078, 4102, 4103, 4128, 4159, 4160.
153
Unpublished, Renoir to Vollard, Cagnes, 18 Dece
mber 1915, in Paris, Bibliothèque des Musées Nationaux du Fonds Vollard, Ms. 421 on microfilm.
154
Renoir to Geffroy, Cagnes, 30 March 1918, excerpt from Paris, Charavay, 7 December 1979, no. 130-6. Dauberville, vol. 5, pl. 4078.
155
Dauberville, vol. 5, pl. 4077; this 1913 portrait was hanging in Renoir’s Paris studio in 1914 while he was painting Tilla Durieux, pl. 4192; see White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, p. 262.
156
Véra was the eldest daughter of Hippolyte Roche and Aimée de Kovalensky (of Polish origin). Véra’s granddaughter, Sophie Renoir, was brought up thinking that Véra was Jewish; personal communication, n.d.
157
Véra won first prize in tragedy at the Conservatory and graduated in 1904 (a year before Pierre).
158
Elisabeth Rachel Félix (1821–58); Aimée-Olympe Desclée (1836–74); Sarah Bernhardt (1845–1923).
159
Tribute found in unpublished papers of Bataille, who died in 1922; published posthumously in Comoedia, 15 September 1922; quoted in Pharisien, Pierre Renoir, p. 72.
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