At the time, for an unknown reason, Louis was so dissatisfied with the painting that he hung it in the servants' quarters and delayed Renoir's payment of 1500 francs.

In 2018, Little Irène gained popularity in Japan when it was exhibited in the National Art Center in Tokyo, as part of a series on Impressionist artworks on loan from the E.G. Bührle Collection.

During World War II, Béatrice, her ex-husband Leon Reinach and their two children were murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz because of their Jewish ancestry.

[6] Irène spent the war in hiding in Paris (apartment rue de la Tour) using her Italian name and passport.

[7] As her daughter Béatrice's sole inheritor, Irène received the large de Camondo fortune, that she would squander in the casinos of the French Riviera.

[8] Irène also had a daughter with Sampieri, Claude Germaine (1903-1995), who would marry the French fighter ace and race car driver André Dubonnet.