Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Picking Flowers



Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Picking Flowers



Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Picking Flowers
1875
54.3 x 65.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: Renoir.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection


Literature

Collection catalogues
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 693

Literature
Sidsel Maria Søndergaard (ed.), Women in Impressionism, Milano, 2006, fig. 123
Gilles Néret, Renoir, Köln, 2019, pp. 122-123


Provenance

Possibly with Durand-Ruel, Paris
with Sam Salz, New York
with M. Knoedler & Co., London, c. 1923
with Howard Young, New York
Mrs. L.L. Coburn, Chicago, by 1932
The Art Institute of Chicago until 1947
with Carroll Carstairs, New York
sold 1 December 1947 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce (1901-1969), New York
bequest 1970 to NGA

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1970.17.61

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Pierre-August Renoir Nude in Brook
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Pierre-August Renoir Garden Scene in Brittany
Garden Scene in Brittany
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant
A Waitress at Duval's Restaurant
c. 1875

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Woman Reading
Woman Reading
c. 1895

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)
Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)
1879