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Pierre Auguste RenoirPierre Auguste Renoir Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret1862-1863
1862-1863
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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret
bears signature (lower left)
oil on canvas
17 15/16 x 14 3/4 in (45.5 x 37.4 cm)
Painted between 1862-1863
Footnotes
This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Provenance
Berthe Poret Collection, France (acquired from the artist in 1863).
Thence by descent to the previous owner.
Private collection (acquired from the above in 1947).
O'Hana Gallery, London (acquired circa 1955).
Michael Mathias Collection, US (acquired through Emmanuel Javogue Fine Arts, Miami in 1998).
Simic Galleries, Carmel, by 2000.
Private collection, Texas (acquired circa 2007).
Private collection, Atlanta.
Acquired from the above by the previous owner in February 2019.
Exhibited
London, O'Hana Gallery, Cezanne to Picasso "Oeuvres de jeunesse," April 12 - May 16, 1956, no. 13 (titled 'Portrait of Mlle. Berthe Poret').
Paris, Galerie Drouot - Provence, Exposition, June 1 - July 31, 1959.
Edmonton, The Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edouard Cortes (1882-1969), Paris and French Countryside Revealed, June 9 - September 3, 2001.
Literature
G-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. I, 1858-1881, Paris, 2007, no. 440 (illustrated p. 453; titled 'Portrait de Mademoiselle Berthe Poret' and dated circa 1863).
One of the earliest known paintings by Renoir, completed the year after he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Portrait de femme - Berthe Poret depicts the artist's friend and lover. Painted in a neoclassical style, the portrait conveys a sense of elegance, timelessness, and restraint that not only juxtaposes the loose brushwork of Renoir's later works, but also the spirited nature of the sitter.
Renoir met Poret at dinner with a friend; the young woman had recently moved from her native Picardy to Paris, where she developed a friendship with an elderly gentleman who provided a furnished apartment in which she could live. Poret's friend suffered from health problems, which allowed Poret great latitude in her social activities. Poret and Renoir began a romantic affair; in his memoir of his father, Jean Renoir wrote, "She took Renoir to a ball. He took her into the woods at Meudon... for several months Renoir spent a good deal of time with Berthe which he would otherwise have devoted to his experiments with painting. But his shade painting brought him in good money and he could afford to indulge in this little idyl" (J. Renoir, Renoir, My Father, Boston, Toronto & London, 1962, pp. 83-84). Renoir himself often advised, "You do a lot of foolish things when you are young – it doesn't matter then, because you haven't taken on any responsibilities. But afterwards you'd be a fool to play around with cheap tarts instead of amusing yourself with painting" (ibid, p. 84).
Although Renoir's relationship with Poret was short-lived, this portrait serves a lasting emblem of a formative period in the artist's career, during which he explored the traditions of classical painting before settling into the Impressionist style for which he is best known.
- Creator:Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919, French)
- Creation Year:1862-1863
- Dimensions:Height: 27 in (68.58 cm)Width: 24 in (60.96 cm)Depth: 2.5 in (6.35 cm)
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- Gallery Location:Los Angeles, CA
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU1436214776162
Pierre Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir had his first experience with art in 1845 at the age of 4 when his family moved to Paris from Limoges and settled near the Louvre. By the age of 13, he had begun to seriously study and practice his work. Renoir started as an apprentice painter in a porcelain factory, where he spent five years. He then took drawing lessons from Charles Gleyre and in 1862, when he was 21; Renoir attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. It was at the National School of Fine Arts in Paris where Renoir met the future founders of Impressionism, Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Frederic Bazille. Renoir paintings remained in the traditional style during the 1860s. His portrait of his mistress, Lise Trehot, was traditional enough to be accepted for the 1867 Salon. Pierre Auguste Renoir’s paintings began to change shortly after he moved in with Claude Monet and Frederic Bazille in 1869. Renoir updated his technique and color scheme. Renoir painted mostly outdoors and began to use vibrant, pure colors and little brush strokes. Renoir, along with Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Alfred Sisley was part of the first exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists in 1874. It was at this exhibit that the term “Impressionism” was first used. The term was coined by a French art critic who took the name from a Monet painting. The term was meant to be derogatory and the show was a financial failure. Despite the failure, the artists continue to exhibit together and were joined by Edgar Degas and Georges Seurat. By the early 1880s, the public had begun to recognize the importance of the Impressionists’ work. In the early 1880s, Renoir traveled and painted extensively. He held his first one-man exhibition in 1883 in Paris. He received commissions from prominent Parisians and painted numerous group portraits of his friends, writers, and fellow artists. By 1887, Renoir was famous and donated several paintings to Queen Victoria for her Golden Jubilee. By the time he was 50, Renoir’s health began to decline. He suffered from cataracts, rheumatoid arthritis, and ankyloses, and spent the last twenty years of his life confined to a wheelchair. During this time he continued to paint and even took up sculpting.
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