MONDAY LECTURES


1 April 2024

Recording

Zoom lecture



Auguste Renoir, The Gypsy Girl (Lise Tréhot), 1868, Berlin State Museums
Auguste Renoir, The Gypsy Girl (Lise Tréhot), 1868, Berlin State Museums


Auguste Renoir, Dance in the Country (Aline Charigot & Paul-Auguste Lothe), 1883, Paris, Musée d'Orsay
Auguste Renoir, Dance in the Country (Aline Charigot & Paul-Auguste Lothe), 1883, Paris, Musée d'Orsay

 

 

The Stories of Lise, Aline & Gabrielle:

Renoir's favorite models

with Chris Boïcos

 

 

 

 

Three women mark with their presence the art of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the Impressionist artist who along with Edgar Degas was most enamored of the female figure: His first model and girlfriend, daughter of an innkeeper, Lise Tréhot (1848-1922) mother of his first unacknowledged children, his later model and wife, Aline Charigot (1859-1915), daughter of a country baker and mother of three boys (including the filmmaker Jean Renoir) and finally his last great model, Gabrielle Renard (1878-1959), children’s nurse and maid of the Renoir household.

 

We will follow the often-untold story of these three women of very modest origins through Renoir’s career and see how they contributed to the creation of some of his greatest paintings, as well as their key role in his private and family life.



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2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition which opened in Paris on the boulevard des Capucines on 15 April 1874.

The Musée d’Orsay is celebrating this anniversary with a major exhibition, “Paris 1874 – Inventing Impressionism”, from 26 March to 14 July 2024.

 

Key Impressionist paintings will also be shown in smaller exhibitions all over France.

Paris Art Studies will be devoting all of its lectures in April to this important anniversary.

In addition to the April 2024 lectures, a number of recorded lectures on Impressionism are also available, should you wish to delve deeper into the subject.