Jules Alphonse Ernest Renoux was a French painter working during the height of French Impressionism and the Belle Epoque.
Background
Renoux was the son of Jules Alphonse Renoux and Ernestine Veron. He showed early a talent for drawing and was still young when he went to live in Paris with his mother. Her husband had abandoned her and had gone off to fight as a volunteer in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.
Education
A student of Jean-Léon Gérôme and Alfred Philippe Roll, Renoux studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and collaborated with Roll on the painted ceilings of the Hôtel de Viller, the Sorbonne and the Petit Palais.
Career
Count de Zogheb, a well-known personality of the Belle Epoque, commissioned Renoux to paint his portrait, which was shown in the Salon of 1901. A later patron was the industrialist Auguste Magnère, an amateur artist whom Renoux tutored. Renoux exhibited in the Paris gallery of Georges Bernheim in 1916, and the public reception was an encouraging success, resulting in the sale of twelve paintings.
From 1922 Renoux exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Francais where he became a member.
Ten of Renoux"s paintings are on permanent display at the Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux Arts de la ville de Paris. Romeny-sur-Marne has a museum dedicated to Renoux’s life and work, la Maison Renoux, where his studio, in the center of his garden, has been preserved.
A stèle and plaque, place de l"Église, are dedicated to his memory. Renoux traveled frequently to Romeny-sur-Marne and settled there permanently after losing his studio in Paris, 50, rue Saint-Didier, in 1928.
He is buried in the village cemetery of Romeny-sur-Marne.
Renoux"s sun umbrella, stool, paint box, and transport case for works-in-progress were displayed at an impressionism exhibit at the Albertina in 2009 and are now in the Petit Palais. 1890 Salon National des Beaux-Arts
1892 Salon National des Beaux-Arts
1896 Salon National des Beaux-Arts
1898 Salon National des Beaux-Arts
1899 Salon National des Beaux-Arts
1900 Salon National des Beaux-Arts
1902 Salon National des Beaux-Arts
1901 Galerie Potin, Paris
1916 Galerie Bernheim, Paris
1917 Sporting Club of Monte Carlo
1929 Galerie Santi, Douai
1934 Galerie Ecalle, Retrospective Exhibition
1936 Galerie Ecalle, Retrospective Exhibition
1963 Galerie O. Bosc, Centenary Exhibition
1965 Kaplan, London
1966 Hammer, New York
1967 Kaplan, London
1968 Kaplan, London.