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November 22, 2017

The Jewish Art Critic in Renoir’s “Luncheon of the Boating Party”

Was the Impressionist an anti-Semite?

In one of Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s best-known paintings, a bearded man in a top hat stands behind most of the other figures, with his back toward the viewer and his face partially obscured. Experts, along with many of Renoir’s contemporaries, have identified this man as the Jewish art critic and art collector Charles Ephrussi. Menachem Wecker writes:

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