Talk:Lise Tréhot/Archive 1

Mistress

At the moment, I've removed any mention that she was Renoir's mistress. Although virtually every Wikipedia article says she's his mistress, when you actually look at the sources, it's all rumor and speculation. And while that certainly deserves to be discussed somewhere in the article, because this is currently a stub, I'm going to wait until I can develop the topic a bit more. This notion that every woman who poses nude is a mistress seems to be an artifact of the 19th and 20th century and I dare not perpetuate it without solid facts. Viriditas (talk) 03:29, 2 April 2015 (UTC)

Well, after doing the required research, it turns out that not only was she his mistress, but they had a child together, which apparently wasn't made public until around 2003. Viriditas (talk) 00:54, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Earliest source that I could find follows: Gélineau (Jean-Claude). - Renoir, sa fille Jeanne Tréhot et l'Orne. - In : L'Orne au XIXe siècle. Culture et société, Bulletin de al Société Historique et Archéologique de l'Orne, CXXII, 3, septembre, 2003. - p. 33-60 : ill. Viriditas (talk) 01:30, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

According to the French Wikipedia (using Gélineau's book as a source), Renoir and Tréhot had two children: "Pierre was born in Ville d'Avray, on 14 September 1868 (place and date of death unknown) and Jeanne, born in Paris on 21 July 1870 and died in 1934." Viriditas (talk) 04:11, 4 April 2015 (UTC)

Timeline

Per the latest sources (see above) via art historian John House:[1] House claims that Cooper's work, which was previously considered the standard research paper on the subject, is now suspect as a result of new information (2003) about Lise from the above sources. Cooper will therefore have to be used carefully, in parity with more recent sources on the subject. This will also have an impact on the use of other major secondary sources that discuss Lise as they likely relied on Cooper as well.

1848

• Born in March

1866-68

• Approximate meeting time between Renoir and Lise. Meets Lise through Jules Le Cœur and his mistress who is Lise's sister.

1868

• September 14: Son Pierre is born. Paternity unknown. All traces disappear after birth. It is thought he died as an infant. Renoir would later marry Aline in 1890 and name his first child Pierre. (House 2011, 26:04)

Date unknown

• Models for Frédéric Bazille.

1870

• July 21: Daughter Jeanne is born. House speculates that Renoir's A Nymph by a Stream is a "celebration" of Lise's pregnancy. House notes that it is virtually the only portrait where Lise is staring directly at the artist.

1872

• Last artwork depicting Lise. Traditional narrative says Lise marries another man and cuts off contact with Renoir, however, House challenges this story, pointing out that the evidence indicates quite the opposite: as it turns out, Lise didn't get married until 1883, nearly a decade later. During that time, she had two children with Georges Briere de l'Isle prior to marriage. It is likely the date was intentionally fudged to hide this matter.

1874

• Jules Le Cœur cuts off his friendship with Renoir (possibly because Renoir propositioned his neice in 1873)

Landscape with Two People (Paysage avec deux personnages)

According to a text book published after an exhibition (Renoir, Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985, ISBN 2-7118-2000-9 ), the painting would have been cut-out and reframed, to keep only the sitting woman. It is named "Portrait de femme", 1866. The picture in this book is in black and white, and small size, but its quality shows it is a photo of the original painting. Its localisation was unknown then. --Rédacteur Tibet (talk) 11:26, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

@Rédacteur Tibet: thanks. I think this is the fragment that the sources refer to as lost. I will update the article accordingly. Viriditas (talk) 22:42, 13 May 2015 (UTC)

@Rédacteur Tibet:. There is additional information about this in Marc Le Cœur's 1998 article "A Drawing of Renoir in 1866", pp. 320-322. I will update the article accordingly. Viriditas (talk) 22:10, 3 August 2015 (UTC)

Additional work

Distel (2010) lists Lise with a Rose (1871) as an additional work that I've never seen anywhere else. Looking at the painting, it is most certainly Tréhot. The problem is, Distel has it listed at the Musée d'Orsay, but I can't find it. I would like to add it to this article when and if I can verify its existence. Viriditas (talk) 10:11, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

Alternate name: Reclining semi-nude. Viriditas (talk) 10:20, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

this?

From fr:Liste des tableaux d'Auguste Renoir - is it Femme demi-nue couchée : la rose c.1872 - and [2] (see right)? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.205.251.105 (talk) 14:47, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

@213.205.251.105: yes, that's the one, thank you. The question, however, remains. Distel describes it as Lise with a Rose and points to the year 1871, but other sources, such as the one you link to above,[3] make no mention of either Lise or that date. Given Distel's credentials,[4] I'm inclined to add the painting with her date, but I would like at least one other source supporting it. As a general rule, I don't add material to Wikipedia without two supporting sources. Viriditas (talk) 20:53, 10 August 2015 (UTC)

OK, I found the supporting the source from the museum.[5] Thanks for your help. Viriditas (talk) 21:08, 10 August 2015 (UTC)