Renoir’s Belle Époque Darlings Meet a Darker Century

A New York Post piece traces how Renoir’s 1881 portrait Pink and Blue of Elisabeth and Alice Cahen d’Anvers follows their lives from Belle Époque Paris to catastrophe: the shadow of antisemitism and the Dreyfus affair, Elisabeth’s later Catholic conversion and death in Drancy during WWII, and Alice’s escape to Britain; the painting’s journey across the Atlantic eventually leads to its home in the São Paulo Museum of Art.