be offered fifty or a hundred francs a picture, but he would never go beyond this Figure 15 Pierre-Auguste Renoir. unless he gained a reputation that enticed one of the few major dealers to buy Mixed Flowers in an 24 Earthenware Pot, circa from him. hopes for a hundred-franc sale to Garpentier show that he Renoir's 1869. Oil on paperboard was in the same position; what little is known about the sales that other mounted on canvas, 64.9 X 54.2 cm (25V x 2 Impressionists-to-be made to dealers in these years presents the same scenario. 21% in.). Boston, Pissarro, Monet, and Cezanne were selling the occasional picture to the modest Museum of Fine Arts. Bequest of John T. dealer p ere Martin; for The Seine at Rougival [FIGURE 42], Monet remembered, Spaulding, 48.592. Courtesy, Museum of Martin paid him fifty francs plus a small painting by Cezanne.25 y Fine Arts, Boston. Presumabl designed for sale through dealers, too, were the lavish still lifes that Renoir and Figure 16 Monet painted from the same bouquet of flowers, probably in the autumn of Claude Monet (French, 1840-1926). Still Life 26 with Flowers and Fruit, 1869 [FIGURES 15, i6]. Still lifes were especially marketable through dealers in 1869. Oil on canvas, these years. 100 x 80.7 cm (39% X 31% in.). Los Angeles, In 1869 tne dealer Paul Durand-Ruel opened new premises with J. Paul Getty Museum, gallery spaces intended to show paintings in their best light. He promoted his 83.PA.215. enterprise as an alternative to the Salon and to more aggressively populist dealers 21