Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children
by VOORT, Michiel van der, the Elder, Oil on canvas, 154 x 190 cm
Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children was one of the paintings Renoir exhibited in the Salon of 1879. The painting was commissioned by Georges Charpentier (1846-1905), a publisher in Paris, who published novels of Flaubert, Maupassant, Zola, and Goncourt. Charpentier and his wife, n�e Margu�rite-Louise Lemonnier (1848-1904) collected paintings by the Impressionists.
The two children in the painting are Georgette-Berthe (1872-1945) and Paul-�mile-Charles (1875-1895). Following the fashion of the time, the boy’s clothes match those of his sister Georgette.