Auguste renoir jeanne samary biography
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Auguste Renoir - Jeanne Samary in a low necked dress 1877
From Christie’s auction house:
Jeanne Samary was one of the most celebrated actresses at the Comédie-Française when she first sat for Renoir in 1877 .
Over the next three years, Renoir depicted Samary in no fewer than eight oils and four pastels, more than any other single sitter.
Auguste renoir jeanne samary biography
She has also been identified as the model for the fashionable young woman in the top right corner of Le déjeuner des canotiers, one of Renoir's most ambitious multi-figure genre paintings (Daulte, no. 379; Dauberville, no. 224; Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.).
Renoir and Samary most likely met at the salon gatherings of the publisher Georges Charpentier and his wife Marguerite, which brought together the leading painters, actors, and writers of the time. The support and influence of the Charpentiers, especially the charismatic Marguerite, were crucial during the late 1870s in establishing Renoir as a successful portraitist to wealthy Pari