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The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
Jeune fille assise dans un jardin ou La Grisette
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The Impressionist Spirit: An Important Private Collection
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Jeune fille assise dans un jardin ou La Grisette
signed Renoir. (lower right)
oil on canvas
18 ⅛ by 14 ⅞ in. 46.2 by 37.8 cm.
Executed circa 1875.
This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
Bonnemaison-Bascle, Paris (acquired by 1890)
Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 29 April 1896, lot 45 (consigned by the above)
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired at the above sale)
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York (transferred from the above in 1913)
Dr Albert C. Barnes, Merion (acquired from the above on 4 April 1916)
Durand-Ruel Gallery, New York (acquired from the above on 22 April 1916)
Robert Sterling Clark, Williamstown (acquired from the above on 3 January 1922)
The Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown (acquired as a gift from the above)
Christie's, New York, 15 November 1988, lot 24 (consigned by the above)
Wildenstein & Co., New York (acquired at the above sale)
Acquired from the above on 11 July 1997 by the present owner
Elaine de Kooning, “Renoir as if by Magic,” Art News, vol. LV, no. 6, October 1956, p. 66, illustrated (titled Girl in a Garden and dated 1878)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, ed., French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Williamstown, 1964, no. 135, illustrated (titled Young Girl in Garden)
François Daulte, Auguste Renoir. Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Lausanne, 1971, no. 126, n.p., illustrated
Elda Fezzi, L’Opera completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883, Milan, 1972, no. 152, p. 96, illustrated
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, ed., List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1972, no. 614, p. 94, illustrated (dated circa 1875)
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, ed., List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 1984, no. 614, fig. 195, p. 72, illustrated
Elda Fezzi and Jacqueline Henry, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Renoir, période impressioniste 1869-1883, Paris, 1985, no. 148, n.p., illustrated
Sophie Monneret, Renoir, London, 1989, fig. 22, p. 150, illustrated (titled Girl in a Garden (La Grisette))
Exh. Cat., Williamstown, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, A Passion for Renoir: Sterling and Francine Clark Collect, 1916-1951, 1996-97, p. 36, illustrated
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1858-1881, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. 418, p. 438, illustrated
Bernhard Echte and Walter Feilchenfeldt, Kunstsalon Paul Cassirer, Die Ausstellungen 1901-1905, Wadensweil, 2011, p. 49
New York, American Art Association, National Academy of Design, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, 1886, no. 152 (titled Young Lady in a Garden)
London, Hollender & Cremetti, Hanover Gallery, Pictures by the French Impressionists, Monet, Sisley, Pissarro, Renoir and other masters, 1901, no. 51, p. 19
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Auguste Renoir, Max Slevogt, Wilhelm Trübner, Eugène Carrière, Fritz Klimsch, R. Carabin, 1901, no. 10 (titled Junges Mädchen im Garten)
Mulhouse, 1902
Dieppe, 1902
London, Grafton Galleries, Paintings by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, 1905, no. 275 (titled Young Girl in a Garden)
Mannheim, Internationale Kunstausstellung, 1907, no. 652a
Munich, Galerie Heinrich Thannhauser, 1909, no. 47, illustrated
Mulhouse, Exposition de la Société des Arts de Mulhouse, 1911, no. 294 (titled Jeune fille assise dans un jardin)
Dallas Art Association, Second Annual Exhibition, American & European Art, 1921, no. 223
Williamstown, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Impressionist Paintings, 1956, no. 140, pl. V, illustrated (titled Young Girl in a Garden and dated 1878)
Memphis, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Impressionists in 1877, 1977-78, no. 22, p. 65, illustrated (dated circa 1875)
Columbus Museum of Art, Renoir’s Women, 2005-06 (not included in catalogue; illustrated on the cover of the exhibition brochure and flyer)
Rome, Complesso del Vittoriano, Renoir, La maturitá tra classico e moderno, 2008, no. 4, p. 19, illustration in color of a detail; p. 131, illustrated in color