Auguste Renoir - The painter Jules le Coeur
walking his dogs in the forest of Fontainebleau 1866

The painter Jules le Coeur walking his dogs in the forest of Fontainebleau 1866
The painter Jules le Coeur walking
his dogs in the forest of Fontainebleau
1866 100x80cm oil/canvas
Museu de Arte Assis Chateaubriand

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Jules le Coeur (1832-82) owned a house in Marlotte at which Renoir was frequently a guest at this time. At the end of 1865 Le Coeur introduced him to the 17-year-old Lise Tréhot who became his lover and model until her marriage in 1872. She posed for a number of works and modelled for the paintings Renoir submitted to the Salon, such as Diana, Lise with a Parasol, Summer, Bather with Griffon and Woman of Algiers.