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French-Jewish banker
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Louis Cahen d'Anvers
BornLouis Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers
(1837-05-24)24 May 1837
Antwerp, Belgium
Died20 December 1922(1922-12-20) (aged 85)
Paris, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Banker, politician

Count Louis Raphaël Cahen d'Anvers (24 May 1837 – 20 December 1922) was a French banker.

Life and family

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. He married Louise de Morpurgo, who was from a wealthy Sephardi Jewish family from Trieste.

Pink and Blue (Alice on the left)

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.

Little Irène

A third daughter, Irène (1872–1963), was the subject of a Renoir painting entitled Little Irène in 1880. Louis was so dissatisfied with the painting that he hung it in the servants' quarters and delayed payment of only 1500 francs. Irène 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.

References

  1. The Cahen d'Anvers family claimed descent from the Davidic Line see jewish refugees Archived 2021-12-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. "Obituary: Sir C. Townsend". The Times. 19 May 1924. p. 9.
  3. "Arnaud de Borchgrave Awarded the Legion of Honor". Embassy of France in Washington, D.C. 21 July 2014. Archived from the original on 11 October 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2017.
  4. Nord, Philip G. (2000). Impressionists and Politics: Art and Democracy in the Nineteenth Century. London: Routledge. p. 60. ISBN 041507715X.
  5. "A Secret Paris Museum and an Aristocratic Family Decimated by the Holocaust". Archived from the original on 2023-07-30. Retrieved 2021-02-04.


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