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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Square de la Trinité
signed 'Renoir.' (lower left)
oil on canvas
21 3/8 x 25 3/4 in. (54.3 x 65.4 cm.)
Painted in Paris in 1878-1879
Provenance
Nicolas-Auguste Hazard, Orrouy; Estate sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 1-3 December 1919, lot 207.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Paul Rosenberg, Paris (acquired from the above, 10 February 1920).
Charles S. Carstairs, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (on consignment from the estate of the above, 1928).
Carroll Carstairs, New York (acquired from the above, by 1929).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (on consignment from the above, November 1933).
Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, December 1933, then by descent to the late owner).
Literature
C. Carstairs, "Renoir" in Apollo, vol. 10, no. 55, July 1929, p. 35 (illustrated).
R.R. Tatlock, "An Exhibition of French Landscapes in New York" in Burlington Magazine, vol. 59, October 1931, p. 194 (illustrated, pl. II).
C. Carstairs, Postscript to Criticism, London, 1934, p. 24 (illustrated in color).
B.E. White, Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters, New York, 1984, p. 202 (illustrated in color; dated circa 1892).
E. Fezzi and J. Henry, Tout l'œuvre peint de Renoir: Période impressionniste, 1869-1883, Paris, 1985, p. 115, no. 622 (dated circa 1892).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, vol. II, p. 134, no. 910 (illustrated, p. 135; dated circa 1892).
Exhibited
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., A Century of French Painting, November-December 1928, no. 19 (illustrated; dated circa 1880).
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., The Landscape in French Painting: XIX-XX Centuries, October-November 1931, no. 19.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings, May-September 1937, no. 52 (illustrated; dated 1892).
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Paintings, Drawings, Prints from Private Collections in New England, June-September 1939, p. 71, no. 104 (illustrated, pl. LI; dated circa 1880).
New York, Acquavella Galleries, Inc., Four Masters of Impressionism, October-November 1968, no. 54 (illustrated in color; dated 1892).
The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, February-April 1973, no. 62 (illustrated; dated 1892).
London, The National Gallery; Ottawa, The National Gallery of Canada and Philadelphia Museum of Art, Renoir Landscapes: 1865-1883, February 2007-January 2008, pp. 160-161, no. 29 (illustrated in color, p. 161; dated 1875).
Providence, Rhode Island School of Design Museum (on extended loan, 1995-2023).
Post Lot Text
This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir digital catalogue raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.