Auguste Renoir - Andree in blue. Andree Heurschling 1917

Andree in blue. Andree Heurschling 1917
Andree in blue. Andree Heurschling
1917 oil/canvas
Private collection

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Catherine Hessling (born Andrée Madeleine Heuschling, 22 June 1900, Moronvilliers, Marne – 28 September 1979, La Celle-Saint-Cloud, Yvelines) was a French actress and the first wife of film director Jean Renoir. Hessling appeared in 15, mostly silent, films before retiring from the acting profession and withdrawing from public life in the mid-1930s.