Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Madame Édouard Bernier
187178.1 x 62.2 cm
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, in memory of her husband, Sam A. Lewisohn, and of her sister-in-law, Adele Lewisohn Lehman, 1951
Literature
Collection catalogues
introduction by Gary Tinterow, Masterpieces of European Painting, 1800-1920, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; New Haven, 2007, nr. 141
Literature
Gilles Néret, Renoir, Köln, 2019, p. 205
Provenance
the sitter, from 1871
J. Bernier, until 1919, sold on 26 July to Durand-Ruel
with Durand-Ruel and Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1919, sold on 29 July to Bernheim-Jeune
with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris and Lausanne, 1919–20, sold to Stransky
Joseph Stransky, New York, 1920–25, probably sold to Lewisohn
Adolph Lewisohn, New York, 1925–38
his son, Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York, 1938–51
his wife, Margaret Seligman Lewisohn, New York, in 1951
life interest to her sister-in-law, Adele Lewisohn Lehman, 1951–died 1965
Other works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children
1878
1878
The Café
c. 1876-77
c. 1876-77
Bathers in the Forest
c. 1897
c. 1897
Bouquet of Roses
c. 1909-13
c. 1909-13
Lise - the Woman with the Umbrella
1867
1867