The Renoir Girls A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal
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Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
14.07.2026
Verlag
Atria BooksSeitenzahl
432 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
14269 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9781668232507
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026
Beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking... Ostler employs her research skills like an X-ray technician, peeking beneath the painting's shimmering surface to reveal secrets and betrayals at the heart of both a single Jewish family and French society. The New York Times Book Review
Immensely rewarding...Ostler transforms history's grand sweep into intimate profile. The Washington Post
Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jew ish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in Auschwitz. This is the remarkable hidden history of the lives behind Renoir's beguiling portraits.
Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family's home in the 8th arrondissement, the grandest quarter of Paris. He has arrived to paint the portrait of the family's two youngest daughters. The parents, the Cahen d'Anvers, are bankers, collectors, philanthropists, and pillars of Parisian society. They go to balls, breed racehorses, and ride in the Bois de Boulogne with their aristocratic friends. But for the Jewish community, the undercurrents of Parisian sentiment are already moving in a sinister direction. The story of the Renoir girls will end in the duplicity and the horror of the Second World War.
With an extraordinary cast of characters, from the girls themselves, their mother's lovers, a heroic British General; from the King of Spain to Dreyfus, Proust, and Maupassantthis is a story about one of the world's most famous pictures, The Pink and the Blue. But really it is a story about Parisone that prefers to be hidden. With access to never-before-seen letters, diaries, and personal recollectionsit is a tale of privilege, beauty, and betrayal almost lost in the shimmering memory of a vanished world.
A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2026
Beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking... Ostler employs her research skills like an X-ray technician, peeking beneath the painting's shimmering surface to reveal secrets and betrayals at the heart of both a single Jewish family and French society. The New York Times Book Review
Immensely rewarding...Ostler transforms history's grand sweep into intimate profile. The Washington Post
Three sisters, the daughters of a prominent French Jew ish family, all painted as children by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In the turbulent years from the Belle Epoque to World War II, one would marry an English aristocrat and escape; one would become a collaborator with the Nazis; one would die in Auschwitz. This is the remarkable hidden history of the lives behind Renoir's beguiling portraits.
Paris, 1881. The artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir knocks on the door of a wealthy Jewish family's home in the 8th arrondissement, the grandest quarter of Paris. He has arrived to paint the portrait of the family's two youngest daughters. The parents, the Cahen d'Anvers, are bankers, collectors, philanthropists, and pillars of Parisian society. They go to balls, breed racehorses, and ride in the Bois de Boulogne with their aristocratic friends. But for the Jewish community, the undercurrents of Parisian sentiment are already moving in a sinister direction. The story of the Renoir girls will end in the duplicity and the horror of the Second World War.
With an extraordinary cast of characters, from the girls themselves, their mother's lovers, a heroic British General; from the King of Spain to Dreyfus, Proust, and Maupassantthis is a story about one of the world's most famous pictures, The Pink and the Blue. But really it is a story about Parisone that prefers to be hidden. With access to never-before-seen letters, diaries, and personal recollectionsit is a tale of privilege, beauty, and betrayal almost lost in the shimmering memory of a vanished world.
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