Louis Cahen d'Anvers
Count Louis Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers (24 May 1837 – 20 December 1922) was a French banker.
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| Born | Louis Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers 24 May 1837 |
| Died | 20 December 1922 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Banker, politician |
Born in 1837 as the son of Meyer Joseph Cahen d'Anvers and Clara Bischoffsheim (1810-1876), he was a scion of two wealthy Jewish banking families.[1] He married Louise de Morpurgo, of an also wealthy Sephardi Jewish family from Trieste. Two of their daughters, Alice (1876–1965) and Elisabeth (1874–1944 KZ Auschwitz), were painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in Pink and Blue in 1881. Alice married Major General Sir Charles Townshend and was the grandmother of Belgian-American journalist Arnaud de Borchgrave.[2][3]
A third daughter, Irène (1872 -1963) was also the subject of a Renoir painting entitled Little Irène. Louis was so dissatisfied with the painting that he hung it in the servants' quarters and delayed payment of only 1500 francs.[4] Irene married Moïse de Camondo in 1891 and divorced in 1902.
During the Nazi occupation of France, Irène survived by escaping to a villa in the south of France. Her daughter, Béatrice was murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp.[5]
References
- The Cahen d'Anvers family claimed descent from the Davidic Line see jewish refugees
- "Obituary: Sir C. Townsend". The Times. 19 May 1924. p. 9.
- "Arnaud de Borchgrave Awarded the Legion of Honor". Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. 21 July 2014. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
- Nord, Philip G. (2000). Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century. London: Routledge. p. 60. ISBN 041507715X.
- A Secret Paris Museum and an Aristocratic Family Decimated by the Holocaust