Jeanne Baudot (11 May 1877 in

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– 27 June 1957 in Louveciennes) was a French

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Portrait de Jeanne Baudot

Life

Jeanne Baudot's father, Emile, was doctor to French artist

Auguste Renoir Pierre-Auguste Renoir (; 25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919) was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style. As a celebrator of beauty and especially feminine sensuality, it has been said that " ...

's relatives when they lived in Louveciennes. In 1893, she met Auguste Renoir through her cousin

Paul Gallimard Paul Sébastien Gallimard (20 July 1850 – 9 March 1929) was a French art collector, bibliophile and theatre owner. He was the father of publisher Gaston Gallimard. Life and work Paul Gallimard was born in 1850 to businessman Gustave Gallim ...

, an art collector.

"She was sixteen years old, was the daughter of the senior doctor of Compagnie des chemins de fer de l'Ouest, and, to the great astonishment of her parents who felt like hens having hatched a duck, she painted and admired Renoir." — Jean Renoir, ''Pierre-Auguste Renoir, mon père.''

Form 1897 to 1914, she lived at 4, Rue du Général Leclerc in Louveciennes, where Renoir had his workshop. She became the godmother of Auguste Renoir's second son,

Jean Renoir Jean Renoir (; 15 September 1894 – 12 February 1979) was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent film, silent era to the end of the 1960s. ...

, at the Saint-Pierre de Montmartre church, while Georges Durand-Ruel was the godfather. Throughout her life she stayed close to Jean Renoir, who became a film director. He wrote the preface of the exhibition catalogue of her retrospective in 1960 at Galerie Durand-Ruel.

painted several portraits of Jeanne Baudot. Maurice Denis painted ''Auguste Renoir and Miss Jeanne Baudot'' in 1906. Jeanne Baudot was a childhood friend of painter Julie Manet, the daughter of

Berthe Morisot Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly es ...

and Eugène Manet, and appears in many instances of Manet's diary. Her name was given to a street in Louveciennes.

Work

Jeanne Baudot painted portraits, landscapes and still-lifes. The only true student of

, she painted under his direct supervision. She notably painted the flowers and landscapes of Louveciennes and Marly. She travelled to North Africa in the early twentieth century, which resulted in picturesque and lighter works. In 1949, Jeanne Baudot wrote ''Renoir, ses amis, ses modèles'', Paris: Éditions Littéraires de France, 137 p. notice BnF n^o FRBNF31774635
.

Exhibitions

* 1966, Paris,

Galerie Durand-Ruel Paul Durand-Ruel (31 October 1831, Paris – 5 February 1922, Paris) was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste ...

, ''Dame & Demoiselles – Blanche Hoschedé, Jeanne Baudot, Paule Gobillard'', from June 16 to July 29, 1966. * 1960, Paris,

, ''Rétrospective Jeanne Baudot. 1877-1957'', from January 23 to February 13, 1960. * 1950, Paris,

, from April 28 to May 15, 1950. * 1930, Paris, Galerie Dru, from November to December 1930. * 1925, Paris, Salon des Tuileries. * 1906, Paris, Salon des indépendants. * 1905, Paris, Salon d'Automne.

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