RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste
(b, 1841, Limoges, d. 1919, Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Portrait of Madame Georges Charpentier

1876
Oil on canvas, 47 x 38 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Madame Georges Charpentier, née Marguérite-Louise Lemonnier (1848-1904) was the wife of Georges Charpentier (1846-1905), a publisher in Paris, who published novels of Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola, and Goncourt. The couple collected paintings by the Impressionists.