Renoir, Blanche Marie (sister-in-law) 17, 24, 201; portrait 47
Renoir, Claude Albert (Coco) 10; birth 205, 218–19; bust of 243, 254; childhood 220, 222, 223, 235, 239–40, 256, 276, 296–7, 304, 338; death and burial 353, 354; education 256, 296; and Guino 286, 336; inheritance 267, 350, 351; lithographs of 252; marriage 354; and mother’s death 312; photograph of Renoir 320, 320; as potter 16, 335–6, 354; and Renoir 11, 332, 335–6; and Renoir’s death 348; photographs of 218, 219, 221, 224, 273, 328, 329, 336, 339; portrait medallion of 254; portraits and paintings of 220, 256, 272, 296; works on Jean’s films 353, 354
Renoir, Claude André Henri, Jr (Pierre’s son) 299, 304, 307, 308, 312, 327, 353
Renoir, Dido (Freire) 353, 354
Renoir, Edmond (Victor-Edmond) (brother) 12, 15, 25, 34, 51, 52, 71, 101, 104, 110, 115, 125, 134, 251; portrait 72
Renoir, Edmond, Jr (nephew) 10, 25, 136, 251, 289
Renoir, Élisa (Ruis) 353
Renoir, François (grandfather) 13, 22, 23, 76
Renoir, Hélène (née Rivière) 12, 208, 251, 258, 289
Renoir, Jean 10; birth 170, 205; Émilie Charigot to 315; childhood 172, 173, 174, 186, 211–12, 217, 222, 227, 235, 258; death and burial 353, 354, 355; education 256–7, 258, 276, 296; film career 13, 351, 353–4; and Guino 284, 286, 287; marriages 353, 354; inheritance 267, 350, 351; military service 297, 299, 301–3, 304, 306–7, 309–13, 327, 329–35; paintings and portraits of 13, 175, 176, 198, 211, 212, 220, 241, 244, 245, 255, 256, 272, 282, 301; photographs of 172, 174, 174, 220, 221, 300, 328, 331, 333; portrait medallion of (Guino) 343; as potter 16, 335, 353; and Renoir 10, 11, 211, 258–9; Renoir, My Father 9, 10, 23, 109, 258, 283, 354; Renoir to 266, 334; and Renoir’s death 204, 348–9;
Rivière to 286, 307
Renoir, Jeanne see Robinet, Jeanne
Renoir, Léonard (father) 22, 23–4, 30, 46, 130; portrait 46, 342
Renoir, Lisa (Marie-Elisa) (sister) see Leray, Lisa
Renoir, Marguerite (née Merlet) (mother) 22, 23–4, 30, 46–7, 152, 184; death 184; portrait 26
Renoir, Marie-Louise (formerly Iribe) 353
Renoir, Paul (Coco’s son) 354
Renoir, Paulette (née Dupré) 354
Renoir, Pierre (son) 10; appearance 261, 262; birth 130, 132, 134; childhood 136, 138, 139–40, 151, 155, 161, 163, 173, 205, 208–9, 222–3; death and burial 353, 355; education 172–3, 184, 186, 212, 213, 222, 256, 260; first love 298; inheritance 267, 350–51; legitimation 159, 160; marriages 307–8, 353, see also Renoir, Véra; military service and injuries 304, 306, 307, 308–9, 327; and mother’s death 312, 313; in Paris 231, 239, 297, 299, 312; and Jeanne Robinet 351–2; and son’s birth 299; stage career 259–62, 297–8, 327, 328–9, 353; paintings and portraits of 96, 135–6, 137, 175, 198, 212, 220, 272, 274; photographs of 219, 221; and Renoir 11, 134, 138, 155, 163, 210, 212–13, 258, 259–60, 262–3, 327; and Renoir’s death 348, 349; Renoir to 262–3
Renoir, Pierre-Henri (brother) 15, 22, 23, 24, 58, 201; Complete Collection of Figures and Initials 24; portrait 47
Renoir, Véra (‘Véra Sergine’) 298–9, 307–8, 312, 313, 327–8, 353
Renoir, Victor (Léonard-Victor) (brother) 22, 23, 184, 313, 349
Renou and Colle (firm) 344
Reopelle (Riopel), Arméline (Émeline) 77
Revue blanche, La 187
Rewald, John 251–2
Ricord, Pierre (‘Baptistin’) 239, 275, 288, 325–6
Rijsselberghe (Rysselberghe), Theo van 14
Rivière, Georges 11, 12, 16, 52, 286; and Cézanne 55, 59, 113, 141; creates L’Impressionniste 58, 59, 128; painting and portraits of 57, 62, 87, 251; Gabrielle Renard to 256; Aline Renoir to 310–11; and Renoir 208, 249, 283, 292, 308; Renoir to 225, 227, 238, 250, 274; and Jean Renoir 258, 299, 301, 302, 307, 311
Rivière, Hélène see Renoir, Hélène
Rivière, Maria Eva (née Jablotska) 208
Rivière, Renée see Cézanne, Renée
Robinet, Jeanne Marguerite (née Tréhot/Renoir) 10; birth 41, 43–4; childhood 45–6, 164–6; death 354; and Georgette Dupuy 268–71, 292, 295–6, 326; and husband’s death 263, 264; marriage 166–9; photographs of 43, 261; and Gabrielle Renard 267, 291, 294, 324–7; and Renoir 9, 12, 19, 44–5, 46, 134, 163–4, 165–7, 175–6, 214–17, 265–7, 293, 295, 296, 317, 325–7, 351–2; Renoir to 11, 12, 164, 166–9, 214–15, 216–17, 264, 265, 266, 267–8, 270–71, 295, 296; Pierre Renoir to 351–2; and Vollard 206, 216, 263–4, 326; her wills 291–2, 294–5
Robinet, Louis Théophile 166, 167, 168, 169, 206, 214–15, 216–17, 263, 264, 265, 266, 354
Robinet, Pierre Gervais 265
Roche-Guyon, La 139, 141, 142–3, 146
Roche-Guyon, La (Houses) 141
Rocky Crags at L’Estaque 114
Rodin, Auguste 191, 206, 281; portrait of 281; portrait medallion of (Guino) 343
Roger-Marx, Claude 156, 158, 202
Romano, Colonna (Gabrielle Dreyfus; ‘Colo’) 298, 308
Rosenberg, Paul 346, 347
Rouart, Ernest 191, 192, 213–14
Rouart, Henri 182, 191, 213
Rouart, Julie see Manet, Julie
Roujon, Henry 158
Roumieux-Faraut family 313
Roussel-Mazule, Henri 308
Rubens, Peter Paul 19, 38, 237–8; Hélène Fourment with her Son (Renoir copy) 25, 81; The Judgment of Paris 238; Marie de Medici cycle 25, 220, 342
Saint-Briac: La Maison Perrette 140, 142
Saint-Brieuc 269, 270
St Cloud 182, 183
Saint Marguerite-de-Carrouges 45, 165, 166, 167, 168, 354
Saint Mark’s Square 112
Saint-Saëns, Camille 63
Salerou, Germaine 250, 278
Salon des Refusés 27 (1863)
Salons 16, 26–7, 29, 55; 1865 27, 30, 36; 1866 35; 1867 31, 37; 1868 29, 37, 62; 1869 60; 1870 28, 37; 1872 62; 1875 57; 1878 65, 68, 80, 115; 1879 53, 68, 69–71, 76, 115, 147, 148; 1880 72, 103, 115; 1881 102, 103, 115, 204; 1882 114, 115, 116, 118; 1883 123, 147; 1890 157; 1904 228
Salons d’Automne 228, 232, 354
Samary, (Léontine Pauline) Jeanne 52, 53; portraits 53, 70, 71, 99
Sand, George 152, 153
Saône River throwing herself into the Arms of the Rhône River, The 18, 19, 246, 342
Savournin (Deconchy), Thérèse 308
Schnerb, Jacques-Félix 13, 226, 249, 263
Scholderer, Otto 28
Scribner’s Magazine 280
Sea in Capri, The 112
Seated Algerian Woman 118
Seated Bather 277, 278, 279
Self-portraits 60, 66, 67, 89, 90, 183, 199, 272, 274
Sergine, Véra (Marie Marguerite Aimée Roche) see Renoir, Véra
Seurat, Georges 146
Shaw, George Bernard: Pygmalion 303
Shchukin, Sergei 251
Signac, Paul 192, 203
Silvain, Eugène 262
Sisley, Alfred 15, 18, 28, 34, 36, 39, 48, 55, 56, 65, 69, 126, 127, 132, 139, 141, 142; death 177; exhibition 71, 122; portraits of 28, 30, 37, 38, 62, 85, 342, 347; and Renoir 11, 20, 30–31, 33, 40, 80, 134; works 54, 58, 62
Sisley, Marie-Adélaïde-Eugénie (ne é Lescouezec) 39
Sisley, Pierre 39
Sisley, William: portrait 30
Sisley Couple, The see Lise and Sisley
Slade, Conrad 291, 293–4, 324, 354
Slade, John (Jean) 354
Sleeping Girl with Cat 72
Small Bather, The see Small Washerwoman, The
Small Blacksmith (with Guino) 343
Small Head of a Woman 254
Small Standing Venus 284
Small Stooping Washerwoman see Small Washerwoman, The
Small Venus (with Guino) 286
Small Washerwoman, The (with Guino) 343
Société des Irrégularités, La 128, 202
Sorrento 112
Spring Bouquet 35
Spuller, Jacques-Eugène 63, 65
Staircase of the Mosque of Sidi Abd-er-Rahman 117, 120
Stein, Gertrude 280
Stein, Leo 281
Stolen Kiss, The 37
Stora, Nathan 202
Summer (The Bohemian) 60
Swing, The 52, 54, 57
Tanguy, Julien François 60
Tannhäuser resting in Venus’s Arms 74
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 36
Titian 19; Venus of Urbino 28
Torso (Study of Nude) 322, 325
Tréboul 210
Tréhot, Clémence 37, 39, 40–41, 50, 51
Tréhot, Jeanne see Robinet, Jeanne
Tréhot, Lise (later Brière de l’Isle) 12, 37–9, 42, 49–50, 52, 60, 62, 164, 205, 266, 317; first child with Renoir 39–41; paintings and portraits 28, 31, 35, 37, 38, 50, 60, 62, 85, 87, 342, 347; second child see Robinet, Jeanne
Tréhot, Louis 37
Tréhot, Mathieu 37
Tréhot, Pierre 40, 41, 44, 45, 70, 134, 206
Triumph of Love, The see Clock Project
Trublot (Paul Alexis) 134
Tunnel, The 62
Umbrellas, The 321
Umehara, R.: Renoir to 315, 329
Union Générale, L’ 115, 130
Vadim, Roger 353
Valadon, Suzanne 121, 129, 143, 148
Valéry, Jeannie (née Gobillard) 172, 178, 181; marriage 205, 214; portrait 207; and Aline Renoir 208, 209, 210, 212; and Renoir 12, 182–3, 184, 189, 205
Valéry, Paul 191, 214
Valet, Mathilde 289, 290
Valtat, Louis: lithograph portrait 252
Vase of Flowers 53
Velázquez, Diego: Prince Baltasar Carlos in Hunting Dress 272
Venice 110, 112
Venus and Cupid 25
Venus Victorious (with Guino) 343, 345, 346
Veronese, Paolo: Wedding Feast at Cana 321–2
Vesuvius in the Evening 112
Vesuvius in the Morning 112
Vever, Henri 114
Viau, Dr Georges 231–2
Vie moderne, La (Modern Life) (magazine) 52, 71, 72, 112
View of Laudun from the House of Albert André 256
View of Paris see Pont des Arts, Paris
Vollard, Ambroise 10, 204, 206, 208, 232, 251, 252–4, 281, 283, 284, 291, 321, 335, 343–5, 351; books on Renoir 345–6; and Cézanne 206–7; Dédée to 348; portraits 243, 252, 253, 264, 342; Gabrielle Renard to 274, 277, 288, 296, 297; Aline Renoir to 288; and Renoir 11, 205, 206, 207, 341–2; Renoir to 208, 236, 284, 287, 313, 315, 316, 344; and Pierre Renoir 261, 297; and Jeanne Robinet 216, 263–4, 265, 266, 267, 268, 292, 326
Wagner, Cosima 112
Wagner, Richard: portrait 111–12; portrait medallion (with Guino) 343
Walsin-Esterhazy, Count Ferdinand 190
Wargemont 73, 74, 130
Washerwomen, The 135, 156, 193
Water see Large Washerwoman; Small Washerwoman
Watteau, Antoine 24, 38; The Clown Gilles 272
Whistler, James McNeill 150
White Clown, The 255
Williamstown, Mass.: Clark Art Institute 355, 356
Wolff, Albert 29, 57, 127
Wolfram restraining Tannhäuser from reaching Venus 74
Woman as Venus 316
Woman dressed in Black 62
Woman in the Boat 52
Woman Reading 54
Woman with a Bird 37
Woman with a Fan 129
Woman with an Umbrella 60, 62
Women on the Sofa 316
World War, First 281, 282, 303–4, 306–7, 309–10, 315, 321, 326, 327, 333, 334–5, 346, 347
Wyzewa, Téodor de 149, 237; Renoir to 219
Young Algerian Girl 118
Young Girl with Swan 129
Young Girls at the Piano 158–9
Young Shepherd see Small Blacksmith
Yport 124
Zola, Émile 28, 29, 37, 57, 63, 129, 192; L’Assommoir 63; Cézanne to 72, 141, 143; ‘J’accuse’ 192
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On the cover: Auguste Renoir, Portrait of the Artist, 1879
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On the title page: Alfred Athis Natanson, Detail of photograph of Renoir, Bonnard and Misa Natanson at the Natansons’ estate in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne on the evening of Mallarme’s funeral, Sept. 11 1989. 13 × 18 cm (5⅛ × 7⅛ in) Vaillant-Charbonnier collection
All paintings illustrated in this book are oil on canvas unless otherwise specified.
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