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Fashioning the Mistress: Gloria Groom

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Partner:: Frick Collection
Location:: The Frick Collection
New York, NY
Event Date:: 02.22.12
Speaker:: Gloria Groom
Tags:: renoir; painting; artist; frick collection; art history

Summary: In this engaging lecture, Gloria Groom explores the role of Renior’s mistress, Lise Tréhot, in fashioning his artistic career. Between 1866 and 1872 Renoir featured Tréhot in more than thirty paintings, ranging from small and intimate genre scenes to the full-length canvases that he exhibited. Tréhot, wearing the most up-to-the-minute fashions, served as Renoir’s calling card by advertising the artist as a painter of modern life, and especially of the fashionable Parisienne."

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Gloria Groom

Gloria Groom is David and Mary Winton Green Curator of European Painting at The Art Institute of Chicago. Nicholas Watkins is reader in the history of art at the University of Leicester and a widely published authority on Bonnard. Jennifer Paoletti is research assistant in the European Painting Department of The Art Institute of Chicago. Thérèse Barruel is an independent scholar and specialist on Denis.

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01.: Introduction

02 min 13 sec

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02.: Renoir's Use of Fashion

03 min 46 sec

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03.: Lise Trehot

02 min 59 sec

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04.: Critique of Monet's 'Camille' 1866

06 min 13 sec

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05.: Style and Fit of Camille's Dress

05 min 07 sec

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06.: Critique of 'Lise-The Woman with the Umbrella' 1867

04 min 17 sec

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07.: Style and Fit of Lise's Dress

04 min 16 sec

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08.: Lise in Another Light

04 min 15 sec

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09.: Last Images of Lise

02 min 38 sec

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10.: Fashion and Fiction

02 min 43 sec

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11.: Portrait Commisions

02 min 59 sec

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12.: Fashion vs. Style

03 min 42 sec

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How Renoir's Mistress Launched His Career

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Curator of European Painting at The Art Institute of Chicago Gloria Groom explains how Renoir's mistress, Lise Trehot, helped launch his career. Lise Trehot posed for nearly 20 of Renoir's early paintings, between 1866-1872.
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Encyclopædia Britannica Article

Renoir, Pierre-Auguste: (born Feb. 25, 1841, Limoges, France—died Dec. 3, 1919, Cagnes) French painter. His father, a tailor in Limoges, moved with his large family to Paris in 1844. Renoir began working as a decorator of porcelain at 13 and studied painting at night. He formed a close friendship with his fellow student Claude Monet and became a leading member of the Paris Impressionists. His early works were typically Impressionist snapshots of real life, full of sparkling colour and light. By using small, multicoloured strokes, Renoir evoked the vibration of the atmosphere, the sparkling effect of foliage, and especially the luminosity of a young woman's skin in the outdoors. Because of his fascination with the human figure, he was distinctive among the others, who were more interested in landscape. Among his early masterpieces are Le Moulin de la Galette (1876) and The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881). A visit to Italy (1881–82) introduced him to Raphael and the expressive force of clear line and smooth painting, and by the mid 1880s he had broken with Impressionism to employ a more disciplined, formal technique. In works such as Bathers (1884–87), he emphasized volume, form, contours, and line. In his later works, he departed from the strict rules of Classicism to paint colourful still lifes, portraits, nudes, and landscapes of southern France, where he settled in 1907. Rheumatism confined him to a wheelchair by 1912 but he never ceased to paint, even though often with his brush attached to his hand. The filmmaker Jean Renoir was his son.; Renoir, Pierre-Auguste on britannica.com