Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Girl with a watering can
1876100 x 73 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower right: Renoir. 76.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Chester Dale Collection
Literature
Collection catalogues
Diane Kelder, French impressionists, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., New York, 1980, pp. 40-41
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 667
Literature
Gilles Néret, Renoir, Köln, 2019, p. 390
Provenance
possibly commissioned c. 1876 for the Sellière Collection, Paris
by inheritance to Comte Batthiany, by 1898
Alexandre Rosenberg, Paris
possibly Paul Bérard (1830-1905), Paris
Alexandre Berthier (1883-1918), 4th Prince de Wagram
sold probably by his 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 September 1931 through Galerie Étienne Bignou, Paris to Chester Dale (1882-1962), New York
bequest 1963 to NGA
Other works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Parisian Girl
1874
1874
River Scene
c. 1878
c. 1878
Noirmoutiers
1892
1892
Young Girls
c. 1877
c. 1877
Caryatid
c. 1910
c. 1910