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Auguste Renoir

Girl with a Basket of Oranges, c. 1889

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 128.8 x 41.8 cm (50 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.)

framed: 151.1 x 61.9 x 5.1 cm (59 1/2 x 24 3/8 x 2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of William Robertson Coe

Accession Number

1956.4.2

Artists / Makers

Auguste Renoir (artist) French, 1841 - 1919

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Inscription

lower right: Renoir

Provenance

From the artist 19 April 1891 to the private collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris; sold 13 April 1909 to Eugène Hirsch, Paris; sold 28 September 1911 to (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); sold 11 December 1911 to (Durand-Ruel, Paris); sold 2 April 1917 to (Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris);[1] sold to Georges Lévy, Paris and chateau Meslay-le-Vidame, by 1933;[2] sold 1937 to (Jacques Seligmann and Co., Paris and New York);[3] sold 27 April 1937 to William Robertson Coe [1869-1955], Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY; [4] bequest 1956 to NGA.

[1] Possibly the painting lent by Rosenberg to an exhibition at Wildenstein's, New York, in 1921.

[2] Lent by Lévy to an exhibition in Paris in 1933.

[3] See 1937 correspondence between Seligmann and Levy regarding the Rosenberg provenance in Seligmann papers at the Archives of American Art, Box 57, folder 28 (copies NGA curatorial records).

[4] Coe acquired the pair of Renoirs and a pair of Hubert Robert paintings for a cash sum and the exchange of a portrait by Tocqué which he had previously acquired from Seligmann; see Seligmann papers at the Archives of American Art, Box 23, folder 8 (copies NGA curatorial records).

Associated Names

Bernheim-Jeune
Coe, William Robertson
Durand-Ruel et Cie
Durand-Ruel, Paul-Louis
Hirsch, Eugène
Lévy, Georges
Rosenberg & Co., Paul P.
Seligmann & Cie., Jacques

Exhibition History

1921: Possibly Exhibition of Paintings by the Great French Impressionists from the Collection of Monsieur Paul Rosenberg of Paris, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1921/1922, no. 25

1933: Exposition Renoir, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1933, no. 91, repro.

1937: Exhibition of French Masters from Courbet to Seurat, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 1937, no. 18.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 160-161, color repro.

2008: Renoir: La maturità tra classico e moderno, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, 2008, no. 28, repro.

2009: Marius de Zayas. Un destierro moderno., Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, 2009, no. 58, repro.

2009: Renoir au XXe siècle, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009-2010, no. 7, repro.

2016: Renoir, Image of Women, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Seoul Museum of Art; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, 2016-2017, not in catalogue (shown only in Sendai).

Bibliography

1918: Vollard, Ambroise. Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris, 1918:plate 74.

1962: Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America: Two New Renoirs for the National Gallery." The Connoisseur 599 (January 1962):65-66.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 112.

1968: National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 99, repro.

1971: François Daulte. Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Vol.I: Figures 1860-1890. Lausanne, 1971: no. 568.

1972: Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir nel period impressionista. Milan, 1972: 85, 118, no. 647, repro.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 292, repro.

1975: Wheldon, Keith. Renoir and his art. London and New York, 1975: 103, repro.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 469, no. 687, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 337, repro.

2007: Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Michel Dauberville. Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. 5 vols. Paris, 2007: 2:no. 1113.