#14 Chrysler Treasures - Renoir Traditional Cache
#14 Chrysler Treasures - Renoir
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Fourteenth in a series of caches highlighting the art of Norfolk's Chrysler Museum, One Memorial Place, Norfolk, VA 23510. The Chrysler Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, Sunday from Noon to 5 pm. Admission is Free. Website: www.chrysler.org. This painting may be seen in Gallery 217 at the museum.
Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) painted this lovely portrait "The Daughters of Durand-Ruel" in 1882. He was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that "Renoir is the final representative of a tradition which runs directly from Rubens to Watteau."
In 1833 Jean-Marie-Fortuné Durand and his wife Marie expanded their Paris stationer's shop to include a commercial art gallery. This establishment, the Galerie Durand-Ruel, became one of Europe's most prestigious art houses, playing a major role in the promotion and eventual public acceptance of avant-garde painting in late-19th-century France. The gallery's spectacular rise can be credited largely to Fortuné and Marie's son Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1921), who joined the family firm in 1851 and became its guiding force after 1865. Paul Durand-Ruel initially used the gallery to promote the work of such mid-century painters as Delacroix, Corot and the Barbizon masters. But encounters in London in 1871 with Claude Monet & Camille Pissarro redirected his interests toward a more radical group of younger French painters, the Impressionists. Returning to Paris, the dealer rapidly established himself as the city's most enthusiastic promoter of the Impressionist group - Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir and others. He was the group's most faithful commercial supporter during its early decades of struggle. In 1888 he opened a gallery in New York, attracting a new clientele of wealthy American collectors. "Without him," Renoir reportedly said, 'we would not have survived."
Durand-Ruel met Renoir in Paris at the end of the Franco-Prussian War and purchased his first pictures from him in 1872. Within a decade the dealer was buying Renoir's paintings regularly and in quantity, and the two had become close colleagues. Thus, in 1882, when Durand-Ruel asked the artist to paint his children, Renoir readily obliged. Renoir produced The Chrysler Museum painting, an enchanting double portrait of Durand-Ruel's two daughters, Marie-Thérèse, then 14, and 12-year-old Jeanne. Dressed in light summer frocks and Milan straw hats, the sisters pose on a garden bench, smiling amid the coolness and dappled light of their tree-shaded perch. Executed entirely out-of-doors, the picture retains the vibrant "rainbow palette" and vigorous open brushwork - the broad scatter of gay color touches - of Renoir's "pure" Impressionist paintings of the later 1870s.
Other caches in this series include:
Chrysler Treasures #1 - The Norfolk Mace (GC7C965) Located in Gallery 208
Chrysler Treasures #2 - Man (GC7EAZX) Located in Gallery 221
Chrysler Treasures # 3 - Angel Appearing to Shepherds (GC7EC96) Located in Gallery 211
Chrysler Treasures # 4 - The Neophyte (GC7ECR7) Located in Gallery 214
Chrysler Treasures # 5 - The Wounded Indian (GC7EMPZ) Located in Gallery 212
Chrysler Treasures # 6 - Picasso (GC3B4KQ) Located in Gallery 219
Chrysler Treasures # 9 - Veronese (GC7EYA3) Located in Gallery 204
Chrysler Treasures #10 - The Last Judgement (GC7EYE5) Located in Gallery 202
Chrysler Treasures #11 - The Vegetable Vendor (GC7EZM5) Located in Gallery 207
Chrysler Treasures #12 - James Baldwin (GC7F3HN) Located in Gallery 222
Chrysler Treasures #13 - Ganymede and the Eagle (GC7F4BK) Located in Gallery 208
Chrysler Treasures #14 - Renoir (GC7F3PJ) Located in Gallery 217
Chrysler Treasures #15 - Samurai Armor (GC7F6M8) Located in Gallery 106
Chrysler Treasures #16 - Tiffany Glass (GC7F5WY) Located in Gallery 116
Chrysler Treasures #18 - Naga Buddha (redux) (GC8A8PE) Located in Gallery 107
Chrysler Treasures #19 - Sarcophagus (redux) (GC8A8X8) Located in Gallery 109
Chrysler Treasures # 21 - Libenksy and Brychtova (GC7QFM0) Located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 22 - Abstract Expressionism (GC7QG86) Located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 23 - Hamlet Robot (GC7QG8E) Located in Gallery 223
Chrysler Treasures # 24 - Here Kitty, kitty (GC89AWG)
Chrysler Treasures # 25 - Bernini's Bust of Christ (GC8RZB5) in Gallery 205
Chrysler Treasures # 26 - MacPherson and MacDonald (GC8ZXF5) in Gallery 218
Chrysler Treasures # 27 - Karen Lamonte (GC8ZY3Q) in Gallery 108
Chrysler Treasures # 28 - Amor Forgiven (GC90M9V) in Galley 216
Chrysler Treasures # 29 - Standing Warrior (GC90VFT) in Gallery 105
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