Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers
Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers | |
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La Petite Irène | |
Foundation E.G. Bührle, Zürich |
The Portrait of Irène Cahen d’Anvers, or The Little Girl with the Blue Ribbon (French: La Petite Fille au ruban bleu) or Little Irène (French: La Petite Irène), is an oil painting by French Impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
Commissioned by the wealthy French Jewish banker
History
In the 1870s-80s, Renoir frequently painted portraits for the families of the Parisian Jewish community. Through the collector Charles Ephrussi, proprietor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Renoir met Louis Cahen d'Anvers. The Cahen d'Anvers family was one of the wealthiest Jewish banking families in Paris.[1] In 1880, Louis Cahen d'Anvers commissioned two portraits of his three daughters, the eldest of whom was Irène. The younger daughters Alice and Elizabeth would become the subject of a later painting by Renoir, now commonly known as Pink and Blue.
The Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers, also commonly called Little Irene, is considered today as one of Renoir's masterpieces. At the time, for an unknown reason, Louis was so dissatisfied with the painting that he hung it in the servants' quarters and delayed Renoir's payment of 1500 francs.[2]
In 1883, the painting was first exhibited in the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to Renoir, held in Paul Durand-Ruel's Boulevard des Capucines gallery. In 1910 the painting was purchased by the wealthy Camondo family, into which Irène had married in 1891.
After the
In 2014, it appeared in the movie The Monuments Men as one of the pieces of art saved by the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program. In 2018, Little Irène gained popularity in Japan when it was exhibited in the National Art Center in Tokyo, as part of a series on Impressionist artworks on loan from the E.G. Bührle Collection.[4]
Irène Cahen d’Anvers
Irène Cahen d’Anvers (1872–1963), the subject of this painting, was 8 years old at the time of the portrait. The eldest daughter of the wealthy Jewish French banker Count Louis Cahen d'Anvers, she married Count Moïse de Camondo in 1891, aged 19. They separated in August 1897 after her affair with de Camondo's stable master, Count Charles Sampieri (1863-1930), whom she would later marry and divorce.
Irène had two children with de Camondo,
See also
Notes
- ^ The Hare with the Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal p. 44.
- ISBN 041507715X.
- ^ "La Petite Fille Au Ruban Bleu". elisabethitti.fr.
- ^ ""自撮り"NGの名画「可愛いイレーヌ」【コラム】". Artne.jp.
- ^ "Nissim de Camondo". Les Arts Decoratifs.
- ISBN 978-0-8143-3227-6.
- ISBN 9780300233377.
- ^ "Villa araucaris".
References
- Julian, Ph. Rose' de Renoir retrouvé. In: Le Figaro littéraire. Paris, 1962, pp. 22.