Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin (1910)
Duret, Théodore, 1838-1927, Flitch, J. E. Crawford (John Ernest Crawford), tr · Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott company · leaf 224
ere universally decried, was the first to commission Renoirto paint portraits. Renoir painted several portraits of himself andhis family, most of which were shown at the exhibition of 1876,but as he was not a man of great wealth, he was only able tocommission works of modest dimensions.… … RENOIR 165 the Impressionist exhibition of 1877, he commissioned him toexecute one of his most important works—a life-sized group ofMine. Charpentier and her children. Mme. Charpentier, dressedin black, is seated on a sofa; at her side are her two youn^daughters, playing with a large dog. The whole…
