Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin . Monet, and Sisley. He nowbegan to develop this branch of his art, and painted portraits whichwere to rank as important works both in respect of their size andof their composition. In this way he obtained sufficient supportfrom people of wealth and people of intelligence to enable him tofree himself from the extreme financial embarrassment in whichhe had hitherto lived. M. Choquet, a man of discriminating taste, who had immedi-ately recognised the greatness of the Impressionists, e
Manet and the French impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin . Monet, and Sisley. He nowbegan to develop this branch of his art, and painted portraits whichwere to rank as important works both in respect of their size andof their composition. In this way he obtained sufficient supportfrom people of wealth and people of intelligence to enable him tofree himself from the extreme financial embarrassment in whichhe had hitherto lived. M. Choquet, a man of discriminating taste, who had immedi-ately recognised the greatness of the Impressionists, even whenthey were 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. Charpentier, the pub-lisher, was also one of the few people of taste who had at oncebeen able to appreciate the new Impressionist art. After Renoirhad painted a successful head of his wife, which was exhibited at. i 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. Mine. Charpentier, dressedin black, is seated on a sofa; at her side are her two youn<(daughters, playing with a large dog. The whole picture is fullof colour ; the wainscot in the background, the carpet on theparquet floor, the variously coloured dresses of the mother andthe children, the black and white of the dogs coat, present a boldrange of tones, all of them in value and at the same time perfectlyharmonious and just. When this masterly work was finished, itappeared hopeless for Renoir to attempt to exhibit it in the Salon,in view of his recent rejections and the reputation which he hadacquired by exhibiting with the Impressionists. Mine. Charpentier,however, had considerable influence in liter
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