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Auguste Renoir

The Mussel Harvest, 1879

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 54.2 x 65.4 cm (21 5/16 x 25 3/4 in.)

framed: 75.3 x 86.4 x 8.9 cm (29 5/8 x 34 x 3 1/2 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Margaret Seligman Lewisohn in memory of her husband, Sam A. Lewisohn

Accession Number

1954.8.1

Artists / Makers

Auguste Renoir (artist) French, 1841 - 1919

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right: Renoir. 79.

Provenance

Adolph Lewisohn [c. 1849-1938], New York, by 1921; [1] by inheritance to his son Sam Adolph Lewisohn [1884-1951], New York; by inheritance to his wife, née Margaret Seligman [1895-1954], New York; bequest 1954 to NGA.

[1]Lent to Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1921, no. 106.

Associated Names

Lewisohn, Adolph
Lewisohn, Margaret Seligman, Mrs.
Lewisohn, Sam A.

Exhibition History

1921: Loan Exhibition of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1921, no. 106, repro.

1951: The Lewisohn Collection: A Catalogue ... before the dispersal of bequests to various museums and galleries, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1951, no. 64

1980: Fifty Years of French Painting: The Emergence of Modern Art, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, 1980

1988: Renoir Retrospective, Nagoya City Art Museum; Hiroshima Museum of Art; Nara Prefectoral Museum of Art, 1988-1989, no. 35, repro.

1996: Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 158-159, color repro.

2007: Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883, The National Gallery, London; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2007-2008, no. 46, repro., as The Mussel Harvest.

2013: Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art, Museo dell'Ara Pacis Augustae, Rome (exhibition title in this venue: Impressionist Gems); California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco; McNay Art Museum, San Antonio; Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo, Seattle Art Museum, 2013-2016.

2016: L'Atelier en Plein Air: Les Impressionnistes en Normandie: Turner, Boudin, Monet, Renoir, Gauguin, Pissarro, Morisot, Caillebotte, Signac..., Musée Jacquemart-André, Paris, 2016, no. 20, repro., as La Cueillette des moules à Berneval.

Bibliography

1928: Bourgeois, Stephen. The Adolphe Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures. New York, 1928: 132, repro.

1929: Meier-Graefe, Julius. Renoir. Leipzig, 1929: repro. p. 115, no. 114.

1934: Vollard, Ambroise. Renoir: An Intimate Record. New York, 1934:245.

1936: Wilenski, R.H. French Painting. Boston, 1936:262.

1937: McBride, Henry. "The Renoirs in America: In Appreciation of the Metropolitan Museum's Exhibition," Art News 35, no. 31 (1 May 1937): repro. p. 74.

1940: Wilenski, R.H. Modern French Painters. New York, 1940: 338.

1944: Drucker, Michel. Renoir. Paris, 1944:53-54, 201, repro. pl. 54.

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.

1972: Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir nel period impressionista. Milan, 1972: no. 371, repro.

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

1980: Monneret, Sophie (intro). Guida alla pittura di Renoir. Milan, 1980: no. 390.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 469, no. 683, color repro.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 336, repro.