Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Girl with a watering can



Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Girl with a watering can



Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Girl with a watering can
1876
100 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

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1963.10.206

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