Outside the world of scholarship, most helpful were: Lawrence Adamo; Mel Berger; Jim Dowrey (my wonderful computer consultant); John D. Goodson; Elisabeth Gracy; Stephen Greenwald; Didier and Martine Halimi; Gerald Harris; Alan Hedge; Paul S. Jellinger; Anne Miller; Jeremy N. Ruskin; and Stuart Wachter.
I want to thank my extraordinary Thames & Hudson/London team: Roger Thorp, Amber Husain, Kate Burvill and my marvellous editor, Katharine Ridler; and my Thames & Hudson/New York team: Christopher Sweet, Harry Burton and Sarah Thegeby.
Finally, thanks to my literary agent Claudia Cross and my international rights agent Melissa Sarver White of Folio Literary Mgt.
This book, which took twelve years to write, owes much to the love and support of those closest to me – my husband and best friend, Leon S. White, and my sons David S. White and Joel S. White, Joel’s wife, Heidi Boncher, and their children, my granddaughters, Ella Rae White and Nina Ariel White.
Barbara Ehrlich White, PhD
Adjunct Professor of Art History Emerita,
Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts
Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
INDEX
All page numbers refer to the 2017 print edition.
Numbers in italics refer to black and white illustrations and photographs; numbers in bold refer to colour plates. Unless otherwise specified all works are by Renoir and are on canvas or paper.
Académie Julian 159
Académie Suisse, L’ 20
Adam, Madeleine: portrait 145
Adam, Mme 152
Adam-Salomon, Antoine 38
Afternoon of the Children at Wargemont 130
Aix-en-Provence: Jas de Bouffan 140, 143, 179; museum 252
Aix-les-Bains 183, 186
Akhbar, L’ (newspaper) 109
Alexandre, Arsène 202, 297
Alexis, Paul 134
Algeria/Algiers 102, 103–5, 109, 116, 117–18, 121
Algerian Festival at the Casbah, Algiers 104
Algerian Odalisque 37, 39
Algerian Types 118
Ali, the Young Arab Boy 118
Alsace-Lorraine 190, 192
American Art Association: exhibition (1886) 157
Anacreon 238
André, Albert 10, 205, 220, 255, 342; marriage 206, 226; and Renoir 11, 12, 14, 205–6, 209–10, 223, 235, 254–5, 307–8, 318, 324, 338–9, 344; Renoir to 32, 231, 235, 236, 251, 257, 260–61, 276, 282, 284, 286, 297, 302, 303, 304, 306, 309, 316, 331, 336; and Jean Renoir 332, 348; and Pierre Renoir 307, 308; works: L’Atelier de Renoir 351; Renoir 280, 282, 292, 320, 321–2, 324, 339–40; Renoir painting his Family at his Studio... 255
André, Marguerite (née Cornillac; Maleck) 205–6, 254, 255–6, 257, 260, 312, 313, 335, 337, 338; portrait 256; Renoir to 222, 226, 238, 312, 313, 329
Andrée, Ellen 99
Angèle (actress) 99
Antoine, André 262
Apollinaire, Guillaume 10, 278, 280, 335
Apparition of Venus to Tannhäuser 74
Argenteuil 127, 140, 280
Art dans les deux mondes, L’ (periodical) 154–5
Artist, The (journal) 178
Artistes Indépendants 115, 116, 119
Artist’s Family, The 175–6, 198, 220, 230, 272, 348
Artist’s Son Jean drawing, The 244, 256
Artist’s Studio, Rue Saint-Georges 57, 62, 87
Astruc, Alexandre 353
Astruc, Zacharie 28, 149
At the Concert 101
Athis-Natanson, Alfred: photograph 203
Augiar, Dr 207
Aurore, L’ (newspaper) 192
Bacchanale 25
Bailey, Colin: Renoir... 123
Banville, Théodore de 63
Baptistin see Ricord, Pierre
Barbier, Baron Raoul 99, 100
Bardoux, Joseph 65
Barnes, Albert C./Barnes Foundation 281, 335, 356
Barthélémy (dealer) 230, 231, 232
Bartholomé, Albert 178, 344
Basket and Partridge 35
Bataille, Henri 299
Bather arranging her Hair 194
Bather seated in Landscape drying her Foot 347
Bather with a Griffon 37, 109
Baudelaire, Charles 153
Baudot, Dr 159, 182
Baudot, Jeanne Aline 11, 19, 159, 172, 173, 189, 209, 213, 301; Jeannie Gobillard to 184; Aline Renoir to 187; Renoir to 186, 187, 209, 212, 219, 222, 223, 225, 229, 231, 236, 257, 258–9, 316, 319
Baume, Abbé 349
Bay of Algiers 104
Bayreuth: Wagner festival 205
Bazille, Frédéric 20, 22, 28, 38, 39; death 47–8; and Monet 31–2, 33, 40; portrait of 31, 48, 83; and Renoir 11, 20, 30, 31, 32–3, 34, 38, 39–40, 41, 44, 47–8, 127, 150; works: The Card Player 38–9; Moorish Woman 39; Renoir 31, 82; La Toilette 39; Woman with Striped Dress 39; Young Woman with Lowered Eyes 39
Bellio, Dr Georges de 60, 75, 98, 129, 134, 136, 176, 177
Bénédite, Léonce 229–30
Benerville: Villa Lucie 159
Bérard, Alfred 73
Bérard, André 73, 100, 107, 118
Bérard, Lucie 73, 118, 130; portraits 93, 107, 130, 131
Bérard, Marguerite 72, 73, 104, 106, 107, 118, 130
Bérard, Marguerite (daughter) 73, 118, 130
Bérard, Marthe 73, 118, 130, 176, 177; portraits 72, 73, 107
Bérard, Paul 11, 72–3, 74, 106, 107, 114, 118, 130, 134, 159, 189, 205, 213, 229; death 239; Aline Renoir to 213; Renoir to 100, 104, 110, 112, 116–17, 118, 119, 124, 138, 139, 140, 146, 147, 152, 154, 156, 163, 176, 184, 185, 201, 209, 210, 235
Bérard, Thérèse 73
Bernard, Émile 345
Berneval 72, 210, 211, 212
Bernhardt, Sarah 299, 308
Bernheim, Alexandre 11, 204, 222, 232, 233, 251; death 341; Renoir to 226, 232, 233–4, 260, 281, 297
Bernheim, Georges 345
Bernheim de Villers, Gaston 11, 201, 204, 277, 286, 311, 341, 351; portrait 200; Renoir to 310, 322
Bernheim de Villers, Suzanne (née Adler) 222; portrait 200
Bernheim-Jeune, Josse 204, 280, 341, 351
Bernheim-Jeune, Mathilde (née Adler) 222, 280 Bernheims/Bernheim-Jeunes 17, 228, 229, 260, 274, 275, 281, 290, 317, 321, 349; Renoir exhibitions 253, 281
Bernsteins, the 72
Berthier, Charlotte 123, 125, 143, 177
Besson, Georges 344, 346; Renoir’s studio 350
Bibesco, Prince Georges 36; Renoir’s murals for 36, 50, 59, 65, 148
Bibliothèque Nationale: Cabinet des Estampes 26
Birds and Tambourines 25
Bismarck, Otto von 48
Blanche, Dr Émile 73
Blanche, Félicie 73–4, 107–9, 187
Blanche, Jacques-Émile 22, 73–4, 107–9, 149–50, 253; Mémorial 346; Renoir to 346
Blanche, Joséphine 24
Blanchet, Augustine (née Vannier) 44, 45–6
Blanchet, Eugénie Victorine 45, 46, 164, 165
Blanchet, François 45, 46, 168
Blanchet, François (son) 45
Blanchet, Jacques 45
Blanchet, Marie-Désirée (née Gautier) 45
Blonde Bather 92, 98, 109, 113, 114, 118, 129, 237, 284; 2nd version 114
Boating Party, The see Luncheon of the Boating Party
Bohemian, The 37, 60
Bonnard, Pierre 11, 12, 203; photographs of Renoir and Jean Renoir 331, 332
Bonnières, Mme de: portrait 157
Bordeaux 48, 304
Boston: International Exhibition for Art and Industry (1883) 122–3
Boucher, François 24, 38, 335; Diana at the Bath 25
Bougival 107
Bouquet 316
Bourbonne-les-Bains 222, 235–6, 264
Bracquemond, Félix 149
Brière de l’Isle, Benjamin 50
Brière de l’Isle, Catherine 50
Brière de l’Isle, Georges 49, 50
Brière de l’Isle, Ja
cques 50
Brière de l’Isle, Lise see Tréhot, Lise
Brière de l’Isle, Marianne 50
Brochard, Father 164, 165
Bruno, Madeleine 288
Bulletin de la vie artistique, Le 349
Burlington Magazine 229–30
Burty, Philippe 129; Renoir to 152, 153
Bust of Milkmaid 316
Butler, Théodore 188
By the Seashore 126
Cagnes 186, 216, 220, 223, 224, 225, 226, 227, 234, 235, 239, 249, 308; Hôtel Savournin 293, 294, 324; Les Collettes 240, 249, 250, 254, 264, 275, 276, 277, 281, 284, 286, 287, 290, 304, 330, 335, 337, 338, 339, 345, 346, 348, 350, 351
Cahen d’Anvers, Alice: portrait102–3, 204
Cahen d’Anvers, Elisabeth: portraits 102–3, 204
Cahen d’Anvers, Irène: portrait 102
Cahen d’Anvers, Louise Morpurgo, Comtesse 102, 204
Cahen d’Anvers family 17, 72, 202
Caillard, Adrien 298
Caillebotte, Gustave 15, 54, 55, 58, 65, 68, 69, 134, 142, 143, 158, 176, 177–8, 202; death 177, 205, 213; and Renoir 11, 12, 53–4, 123–4, 125, 127, 140, 143; in Renoir’s paintings 57, 98, 99; Renoir to 73, 136, 142; his will 53, 54, 124; works: Aline Renoir 143; Rowers 177–8
Caillebotte, Martial 205; photographs 171, 172, 174, 174
Caillebotte, René 53
Caillouette, Louis-Denis 25
Capo di Monte 112
Carolus-Duran, Charles 63
Carpentier, Marie-Charles-Édouard 38, 54
Carrière, Eugène 260
Cassatt, Mary 10, 15, 28, 69, 126, 150, 192, 234, 277, 309; and Degas’s death 340; on Monet 314; on Aline Renoir 287, 288, 289–91, 317; and Renoir 20, 156, 275, 277, 281–2, 286, 324, 340, 342, 350
Cassirer, Paul 303, 304
Castagnary, Jules 129
Celebration of Pan, The 73
Cennini, Cennino 16, 283, 284, 335
Cernuschi, Henri 60, 121
Cézanne, Aline 289
Cézanne, Hortense 114, 125, 141–2
Cézanne, Jean-Pierre 289
Cézanne, Paul 15, 20, 28, 48, 54, 55, 56, 58, 59–60, 68, 72, 126, 129, 132, 141, 143, 251–2; death 252; and Dreyfus Affair 192; lithograph of 251, 252; portrait of 72; portrait medallion of (Guino) 343; rejected by Salon 65, 69; and Renoir 11, 12, 32, 54–5, 59, 60, 110, 112–13, 114–15, 119, 125, 127, 134, 140, 141–3, 179, 206, 207, 252, 284; and Vollard 206–7; works 62, 288: Bathers 59, 86; Carafe and Bowl 141, 142; Victor Chocquet 60, 88; A Large Old Painting (Idyll) 207; Lilac Hills 207; Mt Ste-Victoire 207; Ravine near L’Estaque 114; Red Rocks 207; Turning Road at La Roche-Guyon 141
Cézanne, Paul, Jr 11, 12, 114, 125, 141, 252, 289, 308, 331
Cézanne, Renée (née Rivière) 11, 12, 19, 208, 250–51, 258, 287, 289, 317; Cezanne Jr to 330; Renoir to 274
Chabrier, Emmanuel 63, 176–7
Chamberlin: photograph of Jean Renoir 300
Charigot, Aline see Renoir, Aline
Charigot, Claude 78
Charigot, Thérèse Emilie (née Maire) 76–8, 79, 80, 315, 353
Charigot, Victor 77, 105, 106, 213, 315
Charigot, Victoria 77, 213
Charigot, Victorine (née Ruotte) 78–80
Charpentier, Georges 11, 12, 60, 62–3, 65, 67, 68, 71, 101, 122, 129, 148, 192, 201; death 239; Renoir to 63, 64, 110, 111–12, 154
Charpentier, Georgette: photograph 70; portraits 68, 69–70, 71, 91, 119
Charpentier, Marguerite 12, 62–3, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, 75, 76, 80, 101, 122, 138; death 239; Mme Charpentier and her Children 68, 69–70, 71, 73, 91, 115, 147, 230; portrait 63, 90, 321; Renoir to 70, 71, 72, 104, 110, 113, 119
Charpentier, Paul: photograph 70; portraits 68, 69–70, 71, 91
Charpentier, Mme Théodore: portrait 35–6, 50
Chatou 98–9, 100, 107
Chicago, Art Institute of 355
Child with Orange 118
Chocquet, Victor 60, 68, 72; portraits 60, 88 (Cézanne; Renoir); Renoir to 110, 115
City Dance 67, 95, 120–22, 123, 342, 347
Clapisson, Léon 120
Clapisson, Marie-Henriette: portrait 120, 123, 147
Claude and Renée 220
Clémenceau, Georges 63
Clock Project, The (The Triumph of Love) (Guino and Renoir) 284, 343
Clot, Auguste 207, 252, 281
Clouzot, Henri-Georges 353
Coeur de Française (film) 298
Collettes, Les see Cagnes
Comédie-Française, La 53, 262
Comoedia (journal) 262, 298
Concert, The 248, 347
Confidences 62
Conil, Maxime 143
Coquelin, Jean 262
Coquiot, Gustave 281
Cordey, Frédéric Samuel 57, 58
Cornet, Corneille 134
Cornillac, Marguerite (Maleck) see André, Marguerite
Corot, Jean-Baptiste-Camille 27, 283; portrait medallion of (Guino) 343
Country Dance 67, 95,98, 120–22, 123, 126, 132, 176, 342, 347–8
Courbet, Gustave 27
Courtauld, Samuel 56
Courtauld Institute, London 56
Croissy-sur-Seine 33, 107
Cup of Chocolate, The 68
Dance at Bougival 8, 19, 67, 94, 97, 120–23, 132, 176, 342, 347
Dancer 56, 68, 72
Dancer with Castanets 240
Dancer with Tambourine 240; terracotta (with Morel) 344
Dancing at the Moulin de la Galette 9, 52, 54, 57, 58, 60, 62, 65, 86, 120, 121, 122, 129, 190, 347, 356
Daniel, Samuel 24
Darwin, Charles 190
Daudet, Alphonse 63, 129
Daudet, Lucien: portrait 72
Daughters of Catulle Mendès, The 156–7, 196
David, Georges 294
David, Valentin Joseph, Jr 164, 294
Deconchy, Ferdinand 308, 312
Dédée (Andrée Madeleine Heuschling) 322, 324, 325, 330, 332, 335, 337, 348, 353, 354; as actor (Catherine Hessling) 353
Degas, Edgar 15, 20, 28, 48, 54, 55, 58, 69, 99, 111, 126, 141, 150, 213; anti-Semitism 17, 191, 192, 202–4; death 340; eye troubles 154, 234, 277; and Morisot 178, 181; and Renoir 11, 20, 32, 182, 202–3
Delacroix, Eugène: portrait medallion (Guino) 343
Denis, Maurice 11, 12, 16, 250, 257, 283, 284, 301
Desboutin, Marcellin: Renoir 67, 69
Deudon, Charles 68, 72, 100; Renoir to 110, 111
Deux Gosses, Les (film) 298, 299
Diana as a Huntress 37
Dieppe 73, 106, 107, 119, 120, 125
Digue, La (film) 298
Disdéri, André 38
Doges’ Palace, The 112
Doucet, Marie (née Murer): portrait 62
Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell Gallery, London 122
Dreyfus, Gabrielle (‘Colo’) 298
Dreyfus Affair 17, 190–91, 192, 201, 202, 203, 204
Duhau, E. (notary) 265, 267, 326, 351, 352
Dupuy, Georgette 239, 263, 266, 267, 268–71, 292, 294, 295, 296, 315, 326; Renoir to 268
Durand-Ruel, Charles 11
Durand-Ruel, Georges 11, 205, 207–8, 230, 234, 288, 321, 336, 341, 345–6, 351; André to 308, 322, 332, 338, 339, 340, 342; Cassatt to 340; Joseph Durand-Ruel to 290–91; Monet to 318; Renoir to 290, 304, 308, 309, 340, 345; as Jean Renoir’s godfather 172, 309, 334; Jean Renoir to 332, 334, 340, 348–9; Pierre Renoir to 348, 349, 351
Durand-Ruel, Joseph 11, 277, 290–91, 282, 327, 334, 341, 351; Monet to 350; Renoir to 327
Durand-Ruel, Paul 10, 48, 56, 57, 58, 73, 119, 130, 138, 157–8, 290, 341; André to 14, 209–10, 223, 235, 254, 307–8, 318, 319; Cassatt to 286, 290, 309, 314; and Cézanne 54, 55, 60, 141–2, 206; exhibitions: 1881 101; 1882 101, 116; 1883 101, 122, 172; 1886 157; 1888 157; 1890 162; 1892 121, 172; 1894 178; 1896 173, 181–2; 1901–10 228, 232; 1920 354; 1923 356; Monet to 127, 150, 278; portrait 200; Aline Renoir to 274, 275, 282, 288, 297; and Renoir 11, 54, 116, 119, 1
34, 179, 206, 233–4, 276–7; as Renoir’s dealer 54, 68, 72, 73, 100, 101, 103, 114, 120, 122, 146, 147–8, 155, 201, 204, 207, 230–31, 232, 233, 235, 251, 260, 327, 351; Renoir to 18, 49–50, 110, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 118, 126, 128, 130, 141–2, 150, 152, 156, 185, 189, 209, 213, 222, 227, 231–2, 234, 236, 249, 254, 296, 302, 307, 314–15, 318, 319; Jean Renoir to 335; and Pierre Renoir 260, 262, 348, 351
Duret, Théodore 11, 60, 62, 129, 158, 201; The Impressionist Painters 67; Renoir to 62, 100–1, 102, 104, 106, 107, 121
Durieux, Tilla 303; portrait 303, 305
Éclair, L’ (newspaper) 155
École de Dessin et des Arts Décoratifs, L’ 25, 26
École des Beaux-Arts, L’ 20, 25, 26, 27
Elder, Marc 351
Ephrussi, Charles 17, 68, 72, 99, 102, 103, 202; Renoir to 104
Essoyes 76–7, 79, 80, 139, 140, 154, 163, 182, 183, 184, 187, 208, 210, 219, 222, 223, 225, 239, 351; cemetery 313, 314, 315, 349, 353, 354, 355
Estaque, L’48, 111, 114–15, 119, 126, 150
Être-Chapelle, L’ 45, 168
Eurydice 347
Exposition Indépendant (1894) 205
Faivre, Abel 187, 205
Fantin-Latour, Henri; Durand-Ruel to 157; A Studio of the Batignolles Quarter 28
Fauché, Léon 213, 216, 231
Faure, Élie 330
Fénéon, Félix 202, 349; Monet to 350
Ferry, Jules 63
Figaro, Le 29, 57, 58, 127
Fiquet, Hortense see Cézanne, Hortense
Fire see Small Blacksmith
First Step, The 101
Flaubert, Gustave 63
Flowers (Peonies and Poppies) 54
Flowers in a Vase 35
Flute Player, The (terracotta; with Morel) 344
Fog in Venice 112
Fontainebleau 30–31
Footlights, The (magazine) 328
Forain, Jean-Louis 191
Fould, Beer Léon 17
Foulds, the 72, 202
Fouqué, Fernand 34
Fouqué, Marie (née Le Coeur) 34, 35, 36, 50–51
Fournaise, Alphonse, Jr 99
Fournaise, Alphonsine 99, 100
Fragonard, Jean-Honoré 24, 36, 38, 149
Franc-Lamy, Pierre 57, 58, 160
France Méridionale, La (newspaper) 104
Franco-Prussian War 33, 36, 41, 47, 48, 54, 55, 191, 192, 299
Franz Ferdinand, Archduke 303
Freyhold, Konrad Ferdinand Edmund von 277, 304; photographs of Renoir 276, 277, 279
Fruits of the Midi 113
Gachet, Dr Paul 57, 75, 134, 136, 138, 161
Galéa, Madeleine de 206, 342
Galéa, Robert de 206
Gallimard, Gaston 159
Renoir Page 57