‘A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping.’ – Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity
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In 1881, Pierre-Auguste Renoir painted two young sisters from a Jewish banking dynasty at their home in Paris’s grand 8th arrondissement. 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.

Yet 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.

In The Renoir Girls, Catherine Ostler paints a vivid and immersive portrait of intimate individual lives against the vast sweep of a changing Europe.
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‘Catherine Ostler brilliantly exposes the darkness and latent violence beneath the glamour of Belle Époque Paris.’ – Dame Hannah Rothschild DBE CBE

‘Meticulously researched and beautifully written.’ – ndrew Roberts, author of Churchill: Walking with Destiny

‘I adore Ostler’s evocative and lyrical writing.’ – Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art Without Men
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Doors open at 6.00pm.
This event is being held at the Mainstreet Trading Company in the barn and can only be accessed by stairs.
Please read our accessibility guide for more information.