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
Bailey, Colin B., Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age, fig. 18 pp. 15, 16, 51
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Gaunt, William, Renoir, no. 21
Hrsg. Kunstmuseum Basel, Renoir: Between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie: The Early Years, Fig. 85 p. 297
Masterpieces from the Norton Simon Museum, p. 133
Gachet, Paul, Deux amis des Impressionnistes: Le docteur Gachet et Murer, fig. 17 pp. 156-157, 164, 170, 172, 176-177
Néret, Gilles, Renoir: Painter of Happiness, 1841-1919, p. 189
Rewald, John, The History of Impressionism, p. 307
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Campbell, Sara, Collector Without Walls: Norton Simon and His Hunt for the Best, cat. 1522 p. 416
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Berr de Turnique, Marcelle, Renoir, fig. 16
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Meier-Graefe, Julius, Renoir, no. 80 p. 128
Delage, Roger, Iconographie musicale Chambrier, fig. 28 p. 58
Brettell, Richard R. and Stephen F. Eisenman, Nineteenth-Century Art in the Norton Simon Museum, volume 1,
Gaunt, William, Renoir, fig. 16
Monneret, Sophie, Renoir, p. 66
Santamarina, Antonio, Magazine of Art, p. 55
Lloyd, Christopher, Camille Pissarro, pp. 38-39
Alsdorf, Bridget, Fellow Men: Fantin-Latour and the Problem of the Group in Nineteenth-Century French Painting, Plate 33
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