Georges Petit was a French art dealer, a key figure in the Paris art world and an important promoter and cultivator of Impressionist artists.
Poster by Maurice Réalier-Dumas (1860–1928) for the 15th "Exposition de la Société internationale de Peinture et de sculpture" at the galerie Georges Petit in Paris in 1897.
March 1900 Announcement in The Studio of the First Exhibition of the Société Nouvelle de Peintres et de Sculpteurs at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris.
Cattle Drinking is a painting by Constant Troyon, exhibited in 1883 in the galleries of Georges Petit.
The Old Beggar (1916) by Louis Dewis, seen by Petit in 1917 at Le Salon franco-belge at the Bordeaux Public Garden, after which Petit offered Dewis his patronage.
Paul Durand-Ruel was a French art dealer associated with the Impressionists and the Barbizon School. Being the first to support artists such as Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoi
Georges Petit
…was at the end of the Impressionists' "lean years," and their works had already begun to find a market. Petit had an intense rivalry with art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel (1831–1922). Durand-Ruel took over his business from his father in 1865. The Petit and Durand-Ruel galleries had been the top two firms in Paris dating…
Portrait by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, c. 1910
"The Brothers" (Charles and Georges Durand-Ruel) by Pierre Auguste Renoir (c. 1882)
Portrait of Joseph Durand-Ruel by Pierre Auguste Renoir
Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery in 1910. Photo by Dornac