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Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers

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36: 205:. The Cahen d'Anvers family was one of the wealthiest Jewish banking families in Paris. 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 366:
because of their Jewish ancestry. Irène spent the war in hiding in Paris (apartment rue de la Tour) using her Italian name and passport. As her daughter Béatrice's sole inheritor, Irène received the large de Camondo fortune, that she would squander in the casinos of the French Riviera. Irène also had
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resurfaced and was exhibited in Paris as one of the "French masterpieces found in Germany". The painting along with dozens of other artwork stolen by the Nazis was later acquired by
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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.
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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
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In the 1870s-80s, Renoir frequently painted portraits for the families of the Parisian Jewish community. Through the collector
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a daughter with Sampieri, Claude Germaine (1903-1995), who would marry the French fighter ace and race car driver
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In 1883, the painting was first exhibited in the first exhibition dedicated exclusively to Renoir, held in
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in 1880, the painting depicts his daughter Irène Cahen d'Anvers at the age of 8. During
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by the Nazis. Like many other important pieces of European art, it became a part of
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The House of Fragile Things: Jewish Art Collectors and the Fall of France
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Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century
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65 cm × 54 cm (26 in × 21 in)
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Of no Interest to the Nation: A Jewish Family in France, 1925–1945
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In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette
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gallery. In 1910 the painting was purchased by the wealthy
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and their two children were murdered by the Nazis in
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The Hare with the Amber Eyes - Edmund de Waal p. 44.
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gained popularity in Japan when it was exhibited in
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Index

La Petite Irène
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Oil on canvas
Foundation E.G. Bührle
Zürich
French
French
oil painting
Impressionist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Louis Cahen d'Anvers
World War II
Nazis
organized looting of European countries
war film
The Monuments Men
Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program
Charles Ephrussi
Gazette des Beaux-Arts
Louis Cahen d'Anvers
Pink and Blue
Paul Durand-Ruel
Boulevard des Capucines
Camondo family
fall of France
Château de Chambord
Hermann Göring
Gustav Rochlitz
Tondo
Emil Georg Bührle

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