Renoir's portrait records an informal gathering of friends and colleagues at his home in Montmartre. The central figure holding a paperback and leading the discussion is Georges Rivière, an art critic and early biographer of Renoir. The bald, bearded man partially hidden to the right is Camille Pissarro, another member of the Impressionist group. Less certain are the names of the other three figures, who have been variously identified as painters, a writer, a philosopher, and a composer. Their pensive poses and expressions belie the spontaneous, animated brushwork Renoir used to describe them.
Details
- Artist Name: Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
- Title: At Renoir's Home, rue St-Georges (formerly The Artist's Studio, rue St.-Georges)
- Date: 1876
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 18 1/8 x 15 in. (46 x 38.1 cm)
- Credit Line: Norton Simon Art Foundation
- Accession Number: M.1978.13.1.P
- Copyright: © Norton Simon Art Foundation
Object Information
Dr. George Viau, Paris (sale, Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, 4 March 1907, lot 64, for FF 4,900);
[Durand-Ruel, Paris].
M. Hocquard, Paris.
Antonio Santamarina, Buenos Aires, by 1933 (sale, London, Sotheby’s, 2 April 1974, lot 15);
[P. & D. Colnaghi, London];
Norton Simon Art Foundation.
Magnifique collection d'impressionistes dont 30 toiles de Renoir
- Rouen, Hotel du Dauphin et d'Espagne, 1896-05 to 1896-05
Portraits par Renoir
- Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1912-06-05 to 1912-06-20
Exposition Renoir
- Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1920-11-29 to 1920-12-18
Escuela Francesca siglos XIX y XX
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1933-10-20 to 1933-11-05
Renoir
- Galerie Wildenstein, 1947-10 to 1947-10
El Impresionismo Frances en las Colecciones Argentinas
- Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1962-09 to 1962-10
[on loan]
- Princeton University Art Museum, 1978-05-31 to 1978-12-18
Salon d'Automne
- Paris, Petit Palais, 1904-10-15 to 1904-11-15
Gaze: Portraiture After Ingres
- Norton Simon Museum, 2009-10-30 to 2010-04-05
Reinstallation of South Wing
- Norton Simon Museum, 1993-10-07 to 1995-08-13
- Berr de Turnique, Marcelle, Renoir, fig. 16
- Monneret, Sophie, Renoir, p. 66
- Gaunt, William, Renoir, no. 21
- Lloyd, Christopher, Camille Pissarro, pp. 38-39
- Gaussen, Frédéric, Le Monde, pp. 1, 8
- Rewald, John, The History of Impressionism, p. 382
- Drucker, Michel, Renoir, no. 35 p. 150
- Gaunt, William, Renoir, fig. 16
- Chamson, André, Renoir, no. 17
- Jedlicka, Gotthard, Renoir, no. 27
- Rewald, John, The History of Impressionism, p. 307
- Drucker, Michel, Renoir, no. 40 p. 199
- Santamarina, Antonio, Magazine of Art, p. 55
- Meier-Graefe, Julius, Renoir, no. 80 p. 128
- Alexis, Paul; and Trublot, Le Cri du Peuple, 1887,
- Vollard, Amboise, La vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1919, p. 82
- Rivière, Georges, Renoir et ses amis, 1921, pp. 61-62, 80, 111, 116, opp. p. 62
- Gachet, Paul, Deux amis des Impressionnistes: Le docteur Gachet et Murer, 1956, fig. 17 pp. 156-157, 164, 170, 172, 176-177
- Daulte, François, Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 1971, no. 188
- I geni dell'arte: Renoir, 1979, p. 109
- Delage, Roger, Iconographie musicale Chambrier, 1982, fig. 28 p. 58
- White, Barbara Ehrlich, Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters, 1984, pp. 74, 81
- Shimada, N., The Artists who left the Great Works, 1986, p. 15
- Bonafoux, Pascal, The Impressionists: Portraits and Confidences, 1986, p. 190, 124
- Renoir: A Retrospective, 1987, pl. 58 pp. 172, 361
- Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum, 1989, p. 133
- Bailey, Colin B., Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age, 1997, fig. 18 pp. 15, 16, 51
- Néret, Gilles, Renoir: Painter of Happiness, 1841-1919, 2001, p. 189
- Gaussen, Frédéric, Visites d'Ateliers, 2002, pp. 97-101
- Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1, 2006,
- Dauberville, Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins et Aquarelles, 2007, cat. 233 p. 277
- Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, 2010, cat. 1522 p. 416
- Alsdorf, Bridget, Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting, 2012, Plate 33
- Hrsg. Kunstmuseum Basel, Renoir: Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie: The Early Years, 2012, Fig. 85 p. 297
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