| International Standard Book Number |
9781668232484
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| International Standard Book Number |
1668232480
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
944.081/3
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| Personal Name |
Ostler, Catherine, author.
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| Title Statement |
The Renoir girls : a hidden history of art, war & betrayal / Catherine Ostler.
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| Varying Form of Title |
Renoir girls : a hidden history of art, war, and betrayal.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York : Atria Books, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
xii, 410 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), genealogical tables ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Part One. Renoir calls -- Bonn, Trieste, Odessa -- The new Babylon -- A blast in Russia -- Salonnieres -- Drumont -- Little Irene -- The girl in blue -- Part Two. Captain Dreyfus -- The Cairo season, 1897 -- The girl in pink -- The Edwardians -- The Townshend affair -- Vertigo -- Part Three. Inferno -- Under siege -- Between the acts -- Darkness falls -- Aftermath.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jewish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in Auschwitz. This is the remarkable hidden history of the lives behind Renoir’s beguiling portraits. Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family’s home in the 8th arrondissement, the grandest quarter of Paris. He has arrived to paint the portrait of the family’s two youngest daughters. The parents, the Cahen d’Anvers, are bankers, collectors, philanthropists, and pillars of Parisian society. They go to balls, breed racehorses, and ride in the Bois de Boulogne with their aristocratic friends. But for the Jewish community, the undercurrents of Parisian sentiment are already moving in a sinister direction. The story of the Renoir girls will end in the duplicity and the horror of the Second World War. With an extraordinary cast of characters, from the girls themselves, their mother’s lovers, a heroic British General; from the King of Spain to Dreyfus, Proust, and Maupassant--this is a story about one of the world’s most famous pictures, The Pink and the Blue. But really it is a story about Paris--one that prefers to be hidden. With access to never-before-seen letters, diaries, and personal recollections--it is a tale of privilege, beauty, and betrayal almost lost in the shimmering memory of a vanished world." -- Publisher's website.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Cahen d'Anvers family.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women France.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
France Civilization 19th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
France Civilization 20th century.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
France History 20th century.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Informational works.
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