A suspicious woman is brought before the London police court. The life of convicts at Wormwood Scrubs Prison. Dancing girls in the theatre, Irish children carrying peat for a small wage. Workers building the dome of the Grand Palace for the Paris World's Fair of 1900. The French officer Alfred Dreyfus before his judges, writer Émile Zola at his trial. The prominent composer Franz Liszt at the piano or the famous Madame Sarah Bernhardt in her dressing room. The French painter and illustrator Charles Paul Renouard has drawn countless of such often topical sceneries or portraits of well-known personalities. Scenes from the everyday life of ordinary people, from courtrooms and parliaments, from big events, from celebrations, parades and processions in European cities. The black-and-white pencil drawings were mostly published in the high-circulation newspapers and magazines of the time, such as the Paris Illustrated or the British weekly magazine The Graphic.
Paul Renouard lived and worked not only in Paris but often also in London. He also undertook numerous journeys through many European countries and visited the USA repeatedly. Coming from an extended family in a small village in the Loire Valley, Paul moved to Paris at the age of 14 to earn money - initially as a simple painter. Due to his talent for drawing, which he had already noticed in his childhood, he was accepted at the École d'Arts (School of Fine Arts) and subsequently became a valued student in the workshop of the painter Isidore Pils. Paul also helped him to complete the paintings on the vaulted ceilings of the staircase of the new Paris Opera House "Opéra Garnier", which opened in 1875.
The draughtsman Paul Renouard was actually almost a reporter, a journalist who was well informed about life in his environment and captured it in often quickly compiled but very precise and accurate pictures. Small series of portraits of politicians, for example, or captured scenes from the hustle and bustle of such institutions as the English clubs also show a good portion of the artist's humor. His works not only delighted the newspaper audience but also aroused admiration among fellow artists such as Vincent van Gogh. The competition from photography, which became increasingly fierce at the beginning of the 20th century, especially for those illustrators working for newspapers, could not stop Renouard from successfully publishing albums of etchings and lithographs (including the famous collection "Movements, Gestures and Expression" or the "War Album", which he created in the last years of his life). It is not for nothing that his works can still be found today, for example in the Louvre. The fact that Charles Paul Renouard, in view of his surname, was perhaps confused outside his home country with even more famous painters of his time is shown by the short note about his death in the "Salzburger Volksblatt" of 11 January 1924: There it was noted that "Viennese reports had mutilated his name as Renoir, the famous master from the fighting period of Impressionism".
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.jpg "The Funeral of President Faure, the Procession arriving at the Gates of Pere Lachaise by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Big Ben and the Clock Tower, Westminster Palace by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Preparing for the Paris Exhibition of 1900, View of the Building Operations from the North Side of the Seine by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Waiting for the Doors to open, the Crowd outside the Salon at Monte Carlo by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Unsuccessful, Returning Home after an Effort to See the Tsar by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Examination of Mr Wilfrid Blunt in the Court House at Woodford, Ireland by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "M Mazeau, the First President of the Cour de Cassation in Paris by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Royal Victoria Hospital, Netley by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "A Popular Cockney Resort: The Crowd at the Foot of Highgate Hill on Bank Holiday by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Spring Flowers, Easter Lilies by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Requiem Mass at Notre Dame, the Arrival of President Faure by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "M Octave Mirbeau, a Staunch Supporter of Captain Dreyfus by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "A Final Wash and Brush Up, a Scene on Westminster Bridge by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Diamond Jubilee Visitors, Officers of the Imperial Service Troops by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Making Friends, at the Camp of the Indian Contingent at Hampton Court by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "A Visit to the Royal Mint, Showing Visitors the Finished Coin by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Tsar in the Library at the Chateau, Compiegne by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Recruiting the sandwich men: Accepted by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Trial of Captain Dreyfus at Rennes, a Change of Tactics by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Sir J E Millais reading The Times after Breakfast by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Visitors to the Paris Exhibition listening to the phonograph by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Panama Affair - In the Land of Checks, sketch by Renouard, from History of the Third Republic, Vol. I, Political History by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Visit of the French Fleet, Admiral Gervais on the Bridge of the Marengo by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Gymnast, a Sketch at a London Music-Hall by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Female Convict Life at Woking by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The World at Monte Carlo, the rush for Seats on the Opening of the Doors of the Casino by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "At the Tomb of the Hero of Khartoum, Visitors to St Paul")
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.jpg "Dinner Time at the Zoological Gardens, Here comes the Keeper! by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Prince Henry of Orleans at the Royal Geographical Society by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Among the London Anarchists, a Saturday Night Address by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Behind the Scenes, Robert intercepts the Turtle Soup by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Painters in their Studios, III, Two Fair Artists, Mrs Alma-Tadema and Miss Anna Alma-Tadema by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Rehearsing for the Christmas Pantomimes, Drilling the Troops by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Whitechapel Way, Children at Prayer in the Church Schools, Osborne Street by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Guildhall School of Music by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "After the Third Reading of the Home Rule Bill, Leaders of the Irish Parliamentary Party by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "In London, sketches at an East End Club by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Behind the Clock-Dial, Big Ben and the Clock Tower, Westminster Palace by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Hearing the music at the Opera Comique by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Mars and Venus, a Sketch in the Crowd by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Coming School Board and the Religious Question, Children at Prayers by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Panama Scandals in Paris, the Trial of the Directors of the Panama Canal Company, at the Palais de Justice by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "The Madonna and the Charwomen, a Sketch on Cleaning Day at the National Gallery by Charles Paul Renouard")
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.jpg "Free Dinners to Poor Children, the Dinner Table at St Philip")
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