{"product_id":"the-renoir-girls-a-hidden-history-of-art-war-betrayal-9781471172595","title":"The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War \u0026 Betrayal","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping and revelatory new history, by the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Duchess Countess.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE INSTANT \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eBESTSELLER \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Remarkable and haunting . . . a revelation’ \u003cb\u003eEdmund de Waal, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping’ \u003cb\u003eSimon Sebag Montefiore, author of \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe World: A Family History of Humanity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Truly beautiful and melodic . . . a joy to read’ \u003cb\u003eHallie Rubenhold, author of\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Five \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eand \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory of a Murder\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Thrilling . . . essential reading for our times’ \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Book of the Week\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn astonishing true story of splendour, scandal and tragedy in Golden Age Paris.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. \u003ci\u003ePink and Blue, \u003c\/i\u003ea portrait of Elisabeth and Alice Cahen d’Anvers, captures a fleeting moment of innocence and beauty, and today it is one of Renoir’s most celebrated works. His portrait evokes the glamour of the Belle Époque: days at the races, nights at the opera, sun-soaked chateaux, brilliant salons filled with art, music and conversation. Paris at its most dazzling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eYet beneath the glittering surface was a surging current of resentment. Renoir’s Impressionist masterpiece, radiant with light and colour, hides both a family secret and the tensions of an era poised for rupture. The same society that was illuminated by progress and culture was cast into shadow by division, prejudice and rising antisemitism. The Cahen d’Anvers, prominent patrons of this Golden Age, would come to embody both its glory and its tragedy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Renoir Girls\u003c\/i\u003e, Catherine Ostler paints a vivid and immersive portrait of intimate individual lives against the vast sweep of a changing Europe. Drawing on letters, diaries and exclusive new research, Ostler uncovers revelatory truths about a family at the heart of modern Europe’s struggles. From the aftermath of the Franco-Prussian War to the Dreyfus Affair and the devastation of two world wars, this is a powerful story of love, courage and identity in conflict with the forces of history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCatherine Ostler, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, July 2026\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003eISBN13: 9781471172595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNumber of Pages: 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEdition: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication Date: 12 May 2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication City, Country: London, United Kingdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDimensions (cm): 594.4(H)x388.6(L)x3.1(W)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeight (gm): \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h4\u003eCatherine Ostler is an author and journalist who has been Editor-in-Chief of \u003ci\u003eTatler\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eEvening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e’s \u003ci\u003eES\u003c\/i\u003e magazine and Editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWeekend\u003c\/i\u003e. She has also written for a wide range of publications, including\u003ci\u003e The Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e. She read English at Oxford University and is a co-founder of Cliveden Literary Festival. Her first book was the critically acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Duchess Countess\u003c\/i\u003e (2021).\u003ch4\u003eReviews\u003c\/h4\u003e‘[A] thrilling book . . .\u003ci\u003eThe Renoir Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is much more than an engrossing family saga about lucky people brought low. Its real subject is antisemitism, which starts as a background whisper and becomes a terrifying roar. This makes it essential reading for our times’  -- \u003cb\u003eKathryn Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e, Book of the Week \u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e‘Profoundly moving . . . With consummate skill and impressive research, Ostler tells the story. Reading the early chapters, when the Cahen d’Anvers family were at the pinnacle of Belle Epoque high life, I felt I was inside an Impressionist painting, dazzled by colour and fun’ -- \u003cb\u003eYsenda Maxtone-Graham\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e, Book of the Week \u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e'This book is an epic tale of a changing world that ends up all too close to our own . . . Some scenes will live with me for a long time, in their tragedy but also their revelations of courage . . . Ostler’s book shows that we are at once subject to contingency and fate, and reminds us that we must never stop taking responsibility for the course our world takes' -- \u003cb\u003eLara Feigel\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eObserver\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e‘[A] story that is at once intimate and expansive, rooted in the particulars of a single family, yet reaching outward to encompass some of the defining events of modern European history. In the end, \u003ci\u003eThe Renoir Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is less about a painting than about what lies beyond its frame: the passage of time, the shifting of identities, the sudden and often catastrophic turns of history’ -- \u003cb\u003eGuy Walters\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndependent \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e‘Ostler tells the beguiling, troubling and ultimately heartbreaking story of the Cahen d’Anvers family . . . Ostler employs her research skills like an X-ray technician, peeking beneath the painting’s shimmering surface to reveal secrets and betrayals at the heart of both a single Jewish family and French society . . . The betrayals in this story are endless. Ostler’s book is one more effort, dogged and impressive, to set the record straight’  * \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e‘[An] evocative work of narrative history . . . Miss Ostler has scoured family papers to add rich and telling detail to the sweep of her story . . . As befits such an involving and wide-ranging family saga, she even keeps a big twist in reserve for the very end’  -- \u003cb\u003eMichael Prodger \u003c\/b\u003e * \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eCountry Life \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e‘The final reveal – which makes one gasp – only underlines the artifice of the world Ostler has portrayed, where almost limitless wealth, privilege and familial connections proved in the end no match for the overwhelming evil of anti-Semitism’ -- \u003cb\u003eAriane Bankes\u003c\/b\u003e * \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eSpectator\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e‘This is a remarkable and haunting book, bringing the lives of the three young Jewish sisters, painted by Renoir in fin-de-siècle Paris, into extraordinary focus. It is a revelation’ -- \u003cb\u003eEdmund de Waal, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThe Renoir Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is a dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping. It is simultaneously a portrait of Belle Époque Paris, the chronicle of a powerful French family in a world of palaces, estates and the late 19th-century high society of grand aristocrats and bankers, a story of great love, forbidden affairs and family secrets, a biography of Renoir and his artistic milieu, a history of France from Second Empire to World War Two, and the story of French Jews from the court of Napoleon III to the killing camps of the Holocaust – and at its heart are the extraordinary lives of three sisters and a famous painting. A tale with echoes of Proust and \u003ci\u003eThe Hare with Amber Eyes\u003c\/i\u003e, it is deeply researched, beautifully written, delicious, haunting and horribly timely’ -- \u003cb\u003eSimon Sebag Montefiore, author of \u003ci\u003eThe World: A Family History of Humanity\u003c\/i\u003e    \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘\u003ci\u003eThe Renoir Girls\u003c\/i\u003e is magnificent: a grand sweep of a book, an epic told through the lives of the Cahen d’Anvers, their triumphs and tragedies, their romances and passions. Leading the reader inside a glorious gilded world, Ostler introduces us to a fascinating set of outsiders, both the wealthy Jewish families and the artists. Her writing, truly beautiful and melodic, is a joy to read’ -- \u003cb\u003eHallie Rubenhold, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Five\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eStory of a Murder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Catherine Ostler","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49077107097817,"sku":"9781471172595","price":49.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0502\/9530\/8441\/files\/9781471172595.jpg?v=1786457073","url":"https:\/\/www.arielbooks.com.au\/products\/the-renoir-girls-a-hidden-history-of-art-war-betrayal-9781471172595","provider":"Ariel","version":"1.0","type":"link"}