Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Depicted are the daughters Hughette, Claudine and Helyonne

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. 146

Literature
Colin B. Bailey, Renoir, impressionism, and full-length painting, New York; New Haven, 2012, p. 34, fig. 31
Gilles Néret, Renoir, Köln, 2019, p. 321

Provenance

father of the sitters, Abraham-Catulle Mendès (called Catulle Mendès), Paris, from 1888, commissioned from the artist
with Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, until 1905, sold to Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier, prince de Wagram, Paris, 1905–died 1918
his sister, Elisabeth Marguerite, princesse de la Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, Paris, 1918–29, sold to Knoedler
with Knoedler, New York, in shares with The Lefevre Gallery (Alex. Reid & Lefevre), London, 1929, sold to Rothschild
baron Maurice de Rothschild, Paris, 1929–30, sold to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein, Paris and New York, in shares with Paul Rosenberg, Paris and New York, 1930–54, sold by Wildenstein on 30 December to Simon
Mr. S. Simon, New York, 1954–64, sold in January 1964 to Wildenstein
with Wildenstein, New York, 1964–66, sold 16 May to Annenberg
Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg, Rancho Mirage, Calif., 1966–98, jointly with MMA, 1998–his death 2002

External links

Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1998.325.3

Other works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

At the Theatre
1876-77

Sunset
1879 or 1881

Bridge at Chatou
c. 1875

The Pont Neuf, Paris
1872

Wash-House Boat at Bas-Meudon
c. 1874