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Gabrielle Renard (August 1, 1878 – February 26, 1959) was a French woman who became an important member of the family of the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir, first becoming their nanny, and subsequently a frequent model for the artist.
Gabrielle Renard (1879-1959) joined the Renoir household staff when Madame Renoir was expecting her second child, who turned out to be Jean, the future cinematographer. The painting entitled...
- Auguste Renoir
Gabrielle features in around two hundred of Renoir’s paintings, making her one of his favourite models. He uses her here as a pretext for studying the light, which is bleaching the colour from the ground and her apron.
Feb 22, 2010 · One buxom beauty is Gabrielle Renard — the family's longtime, beloved nanny, and Renoir's model and muse. He painted her hundreds of times. In one image, from 1911, Gabrielle holds a pink rose...
- Susan Stamberg
Gabrielle Renard, née le 1 er août 1878 à Essoyes dans l'Aube et morte à Beverly Hills le 26 février 1959, est une Française, engagée par le peintre Auguste Renoir pour être notamment la nourrice de son fils Jean, et devenue un des modèles favoris de l'artiste [1].
Renoir painted Gabrielle Renard (1879–1959) more than two hundred times. In several of the portraits, she wears the same informal, square-necked gown seen here. By 1908, she had been employed in Renoir’s household for fourteen years, as a nanny, housekeeper, model, and companion to the aging artist.
This work is one of an extensive series painted around 1895-1896 in which Renoir brought together his second son Jean and Gabrielle, the family’s faithful servant. The painter thus created a veritable album of his son’s early childhood.
