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Auguste Renoir

Mlle Charlotte Berthier, 1883

Not on View

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 92.1 x 73 cm (36 1/4 x 28 3/4 in.)

framed: 97.5 x 117.5 x 10.2 cm (38 3/8 x 46 1/4 x 4 in.)

Credit Line

Gift of Angelika Wertheim Frink

Accession Number

1969.10.1

Artists / Makers

Auguste Renoir (artist) French, 1841 - 1919

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Inscription

center right: Renoir. 83.

Provenance

Possibly Gustave Caillebotte [1848-1894], Paris. [1] Alexandre Berthier [1883-1918], Prince de Wagram, Paris; probably by inheritance to his sister, Élisabeth Marguerite, Princesse de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais; sold by Wagram heirs though (Canadeesche Hypothek Bank) through (Étienne Bignou, Paris) to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London); on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York and Paris) and (Marcel Kapferer); sold 5 October 1929 to (M. Knoedler & Co., New York); [2] sold 1929 to Baron Maurice de Rothschild [1881-1957], Paris; [3] probably sold or consigned by 1933 to (Wildenstein and Co., London, New York and Paris) by 1933 until at least 1939. [4] Angelica Wertheim Frink [1884-1969], New York, by 1941;[5] gift 1970 to NGA.

[1] Per François Daulte, Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint, Vol.I. Figures 1860-1890, Lausanne, 1971: no. 432.

[2] Reid & Lefèvre Paintings Sold, sheet no. 207, #20/29 B1413 gives acquisition source and partial share information (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283).

[3] M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook no. 5, London 1928-1939, and Stockbook no. 8, New York, no. A623; copies in NGA curatorial files.

[4]Lent by Wildenstein to exhibitions in Philadelphia in 1933 and Hartford in 1937.

[5]Lent by Frink to two exhibitions in New York in 1941.

Associated Names

Bignou, Etienne
Canadeesche Hypothek Bank
Frink, Angelika Wertheim, Mrs.
Kapferer, Marcel
Knoedler & Company, M.
La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, Elisabeth Marguerite, Princesse de
Rothschild, Maurice de, Baron
Wagram, Alexandre Berthier, 4th Prince de
Wildenstein & Co., Inc.

Exhibition History

1933: Manet and Renoir, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1933, unnumbered checklist.

1934: Rench Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, The Toledo Museum of Art, November 1934, no. 19.

1935: Nineteenth Century Masterpieces, Wildenstein & Co., London, 1935,no. 1, repro., as Portrait of Madame Caillebotte.

1937: 43 Portraits, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, 1937, no. 38., as Mme Caillebotte.

1937: French Nineteenth Century Painting for the Benefit of The Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society through the courtesy of Wildenstein & Co., Inc., Quesy Art Galleries, Chicago, 1937, no. 20, repro., as Portrait of Mrs. Caillebotte.

1941: French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1941, no. 103, as Portrait of Madame Caillebotte.

1941: Renoir: Centennial Loan Exhibition, Duveen Galleries, New York, 1941, no. 47, as Portrait de Madame Caillebotte.

1988: Renoir Retrospective, Nagoya City Art Museum; Hiroshima Museum of Art; Nara Prefectoral Museum of Art, 1988-1989, no. 28, as Madame Hagen.

1994: Renoir: Master Impressionist, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 1994-1995, no. 21, repro.

1999: Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1999, no cat.

1999: Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 1999, no. 34, repro.

2016: Renoir, Image of Women, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Seoul Museum of Art; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, 2016-2017, no. 24, repro. (shown only in Kyoto).

2016: Renoir: Intimacy, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2016-2017, no. 25, repro.

2017: Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2017-2018, no. 5, repro.

Bibliography

1933: Cogniat, Raymond. "La carrière de Renoir." Beaux-Arts 7, no. 26 (30 June 1933):3.

1933: "Manet and Renoir Figure Together in Loan Exhibition." Art News 32: (16 December 1933): 11

1935: Barnes, Albert C. and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Renoir. New York, 1935: no. 138.

1941: Frankfurter, Alfred M. "The Last Century's Founders of this Century's Way of Painting." Art News 40 (15 February 1941):19, repro.

1941: Rocheblave, Samuel. French Painting, XIX Century. New York, 1941: 74, repro. as Mme. Caillebotte.

1944: Frost, Rosamund. Pierre Auguste Renoir. New York, 1944:43, repro.

1971: Daulte, Francois. Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonne de l'oeuvre peint. Vol.I. Figures 1860-1890. Lausanne, 1971: no. 432

1972: Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir nel period impressionista. Milan, 1972: no. 557.

1975: European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 296, repro., as Madame Hagen.

1976: Gustave Caillebotte: A Retrospective Exhibition. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Brooklyn Museum, 1976: 40, repro, 45 n. 30.

1978: Berhaut, Marie. Caillebotte, sa vie et son oeuvre. Catalogue raisonne des peintures et pastels. Paris, 1978:. Rev. ed. 1994: 12, repro.

1982: Thomson, Richard. "'Les Quat' Pattes': The Image of the Dog in Late Nineteenth Century French Art." Art History 5, no. 3 (September 1982):326-327.

1984: Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 465, no. 678, color repro., as Madame Hagen.

1984: White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters. New York, 1984: repro. 132.

1985: Arts Council of Great Britain. Renoir. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery , London, Galleries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1985-1986: 301.

1985: European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 341, repro., as Madame Hagen.

1988: Balanda, Marie-Josephe de. Gustave Caillebotte: la vie, la technique, l'oeuvre peint. Lausanne, 1988:134.

1995: Distel, Anne, et. al. Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist. Exh. cat. Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, The Art Institute of Chicago, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1994-1995: 270-273, repro.

1997: Bailey, Colin B. Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an age.Yale University Press New Haven and London, in association with National Gallery of Canada Ottawa, 1997: 3, 44 n. 23.