Girl In Blue – The Nazi Looting and Post-War Recovery of Renoir’s Portrait of a Jewish Girl In Paris

Girl In Blue – The Nazi Looting and Post-War Recovery of Renoir’s Portrait of a Jewish Girl In Paris

November 22, 2026

In 1941, a specialized German looting unit in France plundered one of Renoir’s most haunting masterpieces: La Petite Irène. In her deeply researched new book, The Girl In Blue – Renoir’s Portrait of a Dynasty Erased, author Doreen Carvajal reconstructs the intertwined wartime journeys of Irène Cahen d’Anvers – the Jewish model who survived in Nazi-occupied Paris while members of her family were deported and murdered – and of her famous portrait that was looted and passed through Hermann Göring’s hands. Their paths converge in a story of beauty and betrayal – the painting a silent witness to what history tried to erase.

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