The Girl in Blue Renoir's Portrait of a Dynasty Erased

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Title: The Girl in Blue Renoir's Portrait of a Dynasty Erased
Author: Doreen Carvajal
Category: World War II, True Crime, Historical, Art History
Language: English | 454 str. Pages | ISBN: 9781538757574​

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A sweeping and cinematic narrative history that follows Renoir's La Petite Irène, tracing its theft from one of Paris's wealthiest Jewish families during WWII and the fate of the girl it immortalized.
"A vivid and deeply reported portrait of looted art, memory, and one family's struggle for survival and justice during one of history's darkest eras." -Dana Canedy, New York Times bestselling author of A Journal for Jordan
In 1941, a specialized German looting unit raided the Chambord chateau in the Loire Valley of France and plundered one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's most haunting masterworks: La Petite Irène. The portrait would enchant or curse nearly everyone who coveted it, but the living, breathing girl it depicted slipped from view. This is her story.
She was Irène Cahen d'Anvers, born into Belle Époque privilege and a wealthy Jewish dynasty. Defiant by nature, she abandoned her religion and her arranged...

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