Madame Charpentier with children by Pierre Auguste Renoir

Madame Charpentier with children by Pierre Auguste Renoir

The painting “Madame Charpentier with Children” was one of those that exhibited at the popular Impressionist exhibition “Salon” in 1879. The canvas was commissioned by George Charpentier, a Parisian publisher who published the novels of Flaubert, Montpassant, Zola and Goncourt. Charpentier and his wife Margaret-Louise Lemonier collected impressionist paintings.

The two children depicted in the picture are Georgette-Bert and Paul-Emile-Charles. According to the French fashion trends of the time, the boy’s clothes are the same as those of his sister, Georgette.

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