Title:
La Place Clichy
Maker:
Renoir, Pierre Auguste; painter; French artist, 1841-1919
Category:
painting
Name:
painting
Date:
circa 1880
School/Style:
French
Technique:
painting (image-making)
Material(s):
oil paint; medium
canvas; support
Technique
Description:
oil on canvas
Dimension(s):
height, 65, cm
width, 54, cm
Acquisition:
bought; 1986; Price, Sarah
Provenance:
Adolphe Tavernier, his sale, Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 6 March 1900 no. 64 (as Place Clichy); Marquise Arzonati-Visconti; Alexandre, Prince de Wagram (between 1907-1909); with Reid and Lefèvre, London, from whom bought by Samuel Courtauld; given by him to his daughter Sidney (Mrs. R.A. Butler), by whom bequeathed to her daughter Sarah (Mrs. Price)
Acquisition Credit:
From the Abbott, Cunliffe, Robin Hambro Works of Art, Leverton Harris, Marlay, Perceval and University Purchase Funds and the Bartlett Bequest, with the aid of very generous grants from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the National Art Collections Fund, the Wolfson Foundation through the National Art Collections Fund, the Esmee Fairburn Charitable Trust, the Pilgrim Trust, the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust, the American Friends of Cambridge University, the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum and a number of Cambridge colleges (Trinity, King's, Caius, St. John's, Emmanuel, Peterhouse, Sidney Sussex, Clare, Corpus Christi, and Churchill) together with contributions from numerous firms and individuals.
Inscription:
signature; lower left; A. Renoir
Exhibition(s):
Impressionism, its Masters, its Precursors and its Influence in Britain. 1974
Venue: Royal Academy of Arts, London
Notes: catalogue by John House
Catalogue number: 100
Renoir. 1985
Venue: Paris, Grand Palais
Notes: catalogue by John House, 1985, p. 217
Catalogue number: 49
[Fitzwilliam Museum, 1978-1986]. 1978 - 1986
Organiser: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Venue: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (Cambs.)
Notes: apart from the above exhibition
Samuel Courtauld. 1948
Venue: Tate Gallery, London?
Impressionism in England. Samuel Courtauld as a collector. 1999
Venue: Courtauld Institute, London?
Catalogue number: 40
Documentation:
, National Art Collections Fund1994. National Art Collections Fund Review 1994.London?: p. 20
reproduced
Callen, A.. 1978. Renoir.p. 280
Daulte, François. 1971. Auguste Renoir, Catalogue raisonne de l' oeuvre print, I, Figures 1860-1890.Lausanne:
no. 326
Meier-Graefe, J.. 1912. Auguste Renoir.Munich: p. 64
Cooper, D.. 1954. The Courtauld Collection.London?: p. 111
no. 55
Bernard, Bruce. 1986. The Impressionist Revolution.p. 181
reproduced
1993. Impressionism. Beneath the Surface.London?: p. 33
fig. 19; repr. back cover & detail on (front) cover
Christie's Sale Catalogue, 1995.p. 2
reproduced fig. 1
Sutton, Denys. 'An Unpublished Sketch by Renoir'.London?:
Source Title: Apollo(1963)
p. 392-4
Isaacson, A.. Impressionism and Journalistic Illustration.
Source Title: Arts Magazine(1982)
p. 107
Jaffé, Michael. Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 'La Place Clichy'.Cambridge (Cambs.):
Source Title: Cambridge; The Magazine of the Cambridge Society 21 (1987)
p. 96-99
reproduced p. 97
Wintersgill, Donald. Around the Block: Hush Hush.
Source Title: Art & Auction(1987)
p. 34, 36
Accession:
Object Number: PD.44-1986
(Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(record id: 2930; input: 2000-03-14; modified: 2011-12-16)
(Picture Cabinet reference : 703793)
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