# Gabrielle Renard

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Family member of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1878–1959)

Gabrielle Renard and [Jean Renoir](/source/Jean_Renoir), painted in 1895 by [Pierre-Auguste Renoir](/source/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir)

*The Artist's Family*, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1896.

*Gabrielle with Rose*, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1911.

**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](/source/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir), first becoming their [nanny](/source/Nanny), and subsequently a frequent model for the artist.[1] The bond she developed with the Renoirs' second son, the future filmmaker [Jean Renoir](/source/Jean_Renoir), lasted throughout their lives. Upon her marriage in 1921, she became **Gabrielle Renard-Slade**.[2]

## Early life

Born in [Essoyes](/source/Essoyes) in the [Aube](/source/Aube) *departement* of France, she was a cousin of [Aline Victorine Charigot Renoir](/source/Aline_Charigot), who had married the painter, [Pierre-Auguste](/source/Pierre-Auguste_Renoir). The village was the birthplace of Aline also. At age sixteen, Gabrielle Renard moved to [Montmartre](/source/Montmartre) to live and work as a nanny in her cousin's household, where the second of the three Renoir sons was about to be born. Renard became the subject of a number of Renoir's portraits, many of her with the children.[3]

## The Renoir family

Gabrielle Renard developed a strong bond with the infant, [Jean Renoir](/source/Jean_Renoir), that would last throughout their lives. She introduced him to the [Guignol puppet shows](/source/Guignol) that were held in the [Montmartre](/source/Montmartre). Gabrielle was fascinated by the newly invented [motion picture](/source/Motion_picture), and when Jean Renoir was only a few years old, she took him to see his first film. He became a renowned film maker.

During the final years of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's life he suffered from severe rheumatoid arthritis, but continued to paint with her help. When the family moved to a farm at [Cagnes-sur-Mer](/source/Cagnes-sur-Mer) near the [Mediterranean](/source/Mediterranean_Sea) coast, seeking a better climate for Renoir's arthritis, Gabrielle moved with them. While he worked in the studio at "*Les Collettes*", Gabrielle would place the paint brush between his crippled fingers.

## Marriage

Devoted to her cousin's family, Gabrielle Renard did not marry until 1921, when the Renoir children were grown. Her husband, [Conrad Hensler Slade](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Conrad_Hensler_Slade&action=edit&redlink=1) [[wd](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:EntityPage/Q84614616#sitelinks-wikipedia)] (1871–1955), was an aspiring painter from a wealthy American family. They had a son whom they named Jean Slade.[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*]

## The United States

Following the occupation of France by the [Germans](/source/Germany) during World War II, Gabrielle and her family moved to the United States, her husband's native country. Jean Renoir also moved to the United States during the war. Being a successful film director, he settled in [Hollywood, Los Angeles, California](/source/Hollywood%2C_Los_Angeles%2C_California). When Gabrielle's husband died in 1955, she moved to [Beverly Hills](/source/Beverly_Hills) to be near Jean Renoir.

## Death

Gabrielle Renard-Slade died at her home in Beverly Hills in 1959. In his memoirs, *[My Life and My Films](/source/My_Life_and_My_Films)*, Jean Renoir begins and ends his book with discussion of Gabrielle Renard, and, throughout the autobiography, he recounts the profound influence Gabrielle had upon his life. He wrote, "She taught me to see the face behind the mask and the fraud behind the flourishes", and he concluded with the words he said he had often spoken as a child, "Wait for me, Gabrielle".[4]

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Kuvatova, V. (2013). [*Impressionism: the history, the artists, the masterpieces*](https://books.google.com/books?id=eO0-c7nFofUC&q=%22Gabrielle+Renard%22&pg=PT16). Russia: Издательство Проспект. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9785392059461](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9785392059461). Retrieved August 5, 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Pharisien, Bernard (June 2014). *Gabrielle d'Essoyes*. Bar sur Aube (France): Némont éditeur. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9782913163270](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9782913163270).

1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** Phillips, Donald T. (2010). [*The Hidden Renoir*](https://books.google.com/books?id=egSt_8VoDSoC&q=%22Gabrielle+Renard%22&pg=PA77). Donald T. Phillips. p. 77. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780982848401](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780982848401). Retrieved August 5, 2014.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** Macdonald, Nicholas (2013). [*In Search of La Grande Illusion: A Critical Appreciation of Jean Renoir's Elusive Masterpiece*](https://books.google.com/books?id=OS8FAgAAQBAJ&q=%22Gabrielle+Renard%22&pg=PA147). Jefferson, North Carolina: [McFarland & Company](/source/McFarland_%26_Company). p. 147. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9780786462704](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780786462704). Retrieved August 5, 2014.

## External links

- Media related to [Gabrielle Renard](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Gabrielle_Renard) at Wikimedia Commons

v t e Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paintings List of paintings Portrait of William Sisley (1864) Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866) Diana (1867) Lise with a Parasol (1867) Frédéric Bazille at his Easel (1867) A Couple (Les Fiancés) (1868) In Summer (1868) Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (1868) Léonard Renoir, The Artist's Father (1869) La Grenouillère (1869) A Nymph by a Stream (1869–70) L'Algérienne (1870) La Promenade (1870) Bather with a Griffon Dog (1870) Woman with Parakeet (1871) The Harem (1872) Le Pont-Neuf (1872) The Gust of Wind (1872) Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873) La Parisienne (1874) La Loge (1874) The Grands Boulevards (1875) Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet (1875) In the Garden – Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875) Woman with a Cat (1875) Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876) Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) (1876) The Swing (1876) A Girl with a Watering Can (1876) Mother and Children (1876) At the Theatre (1876–1877) Eugène Murer (1877) The Day Dream (1877) The Cup of Chocolate (1878) Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children (1878) Portrait of Jeanne Samary (1878) Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (1879) Paysage Bords de Seine (1879) Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La Petite Irène) (1880) Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) Pink and Blue (1881) Two Sisters (On the Terrace) (1881) Young Women in Black (1880–1882) Blonde Bather (1881 and 1882) The Umbrellas (1880–81, 1885–86) By the Seashore (1883) Dance at Bougival (1883) Dance in the City (1883) Dance in the Country (1883) Les Grandes Baigneuses (1884–1887) Nature morte: fleurs (1885) The Braid (1886–1887) Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (1888) Girls at the Piano (1892) Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano (1897) Woman Playing a Guitar (1897) Gabrielle with Open Blouse (1907) Nude (1910) After the Bath (1910) The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains (c. 1910) Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1911) The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (c. 1908–1914) Blond Girl with a Rose (1915–1917) Portrait of Adèle Besson (1918) The Bathers (1918–19) Sculptures Venus Victorious (c. 1914) Portrayals Portrait of Pierre‑Auguste Renoir (1867 painting) A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting) Bazille's Studio (1870 painting) The Impressionists (2006 series) Renoir (2012 film) Family Aline Charigot (wife) Lucienne Bisson (daughter) Pierre Renoir (son) Jean Renoir (son) Claude Renoir (son) Claude Renoir (grandson) Alain Renoir (grandson) Paul Renoir (grandson) Pierre Roland Renoir (great-grandson) Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter) Jean-Emmanuel Renoir (great-grandson) Related Musée de Montmartre, home and studio Renoir, My Father Gabrielle Renard (nanny, later model) Lise Tréhot Marguerite Legrand Catherine Hessling Richard Guino Jeanne Samary Suzanne Valadon Henriette Henriot Jane Henriot (child model) Raoul Rigault Jeanne Baudot (his only student) Maison Fournaise Pays des Impressionnistes Renoir (crater)

v t e Jean Renoir Bibliography Filmography Films directed The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) Nana (1926) Charleston Parade (1927) Marquitta (1927) The Little Match Girl (1928) Le Bled (1929) On purge bébé (1931) La Chienne (1931) Night at the Crossroads (1932) Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) Chotard and Company (1933) Madame Bovary (1934) Toni (1935) Life Belongs to Us (1936) The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) The Lower Depths (1936) La Grande Illusion (1937) La Marseillaise (1938) La Bête Humaine (1938) The Rules of the Game (1939) Swamp Water (1941) This Land Is Mine (1943) The Southerner (1945) The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) "Partie de campagne" (1946) The Woman on the Beach (1947) The River (1951) The Golden Coach (1952) French Cancan (1955) Elena and Her Men (1956) The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1959) Picnic on the Grass (1959) The Elusive Corporal (1962) The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970) Books written Renoir, My Father (1962) The Notebooks of Captain Georges (1966) My Life and My Films (1974) Related Louis Lumière / conversation avec Langlois et Renoir Catherine Hessling (wife) Alain Renoir (son) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (father) Aline Charigot Renoir (mother) Pierre Renoir (brother) Gabrielle Renard Marguerite Renoir

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