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The Gust of Wind (Le grand vent) Renoir, Pierre Auguste (painter)
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Title/s | The Gust of Wind |
Translated title | Le grand vent |
Maker/s | Renoir, Pierre Auguste (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1841-1919]
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Category |
painting
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Name |
painting |
School/Style |
French |
Technique Description | oil on canvas |
Dimensions |
height: 52.0
cm
width: 82.5
cm
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Date | circa 1872 |
Provenance |
bequeathed:
Hindley Smith, Frank 1939 (Filtered for: Paintings, Drawings and Prints) Auction organised by Monet, Berthe Morisot, Renoir and Sisley at Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 March 1875, bought by Auguste de Moulins, the painter; sold by his family to Durand Ruel, 1899; bought by Alphonse Kahn, 1908; with Messrs. L.H. Lefèvre and Son, London, 1923; F. Hindley Smith
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Inscriptions/Marks | -
signature
Position: lower right
Method:
Content: A. Renoir
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label
Position: verso
Method:
Content: City of Manchester Art Gallery, Lender F. Hindley Smith, Title the Gust of Wind, Artist, Renoir
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label
Position: verso
Method: ink
Content: Renoir, 618, le coup de Vent
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label
Position: verso
Method: ink
Content: Alph. Kahn. Renoir, Le Coup de Vent, 1873
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label
Position: verso
Method: ink
Content: Renoir, Le Coup de Vent, Col. Kahn
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supporting information
Position: verso
Method: slip from a catalogue
Content: Auguste Renoir, 19, Le Coup de Vent, size 32 1/2 " x 20 1/2 " signed, A. Renoir, painted about 1872, exhibited at the exposition d' Art Français. Zurich 1917
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label
Position: verso
Method: printed label
Content: Walker Art Galler, Liverpool - lent F.Hindley Smith
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label
Position: verso
Method: printed label
Content: City of Manchester Art Gallery (evidently for same exhibition as the first label)
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label
Position: verso
Method: dealers stock label
Content: Renoir 5386 / Paysage ppbd
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label
Position: verso
Method: dealers stock number
Content: ph 3052
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Documentation | - (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 108]
- (1923) The Impressionist School and some great French Painters of the Nineteenth Century, London?
[comments: exhibition catalogue, reproduced] - Laver, James (1937) French Painting and the Nineteenth Century,
[comments: fig. 87] - Blunt, Anthony (1950) The Nation's Pictures: a guide to the chief national and municipal picture galleries of England, Scotland and Wales, London?: Chatto and Windus
[comments: fig. 43a] - (1949-50) Landscape in French Art, London?
[comments: exhibition catalogue, Book of Illustrations, pl. 62] - (1952) Handbook and Guide to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.)
[comments: pl. IV, (also in 1954 and 1957 editions)] - Winter, Carl (1958) The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey, London: Trianon Press [page: 403]
- Winter, Carl (1959) Treasures of Cambridge (Illustrations), London?
[comments: pl. 43] - Goodison, J.W. (1960) Catalogue of Paintings in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Vol. I, French, German and Spanish, Cambridge (Cambs.) [page: 192]
[comments: pl. 101] - Bodelsen, Merete 'Early Impressionist Sales (1874-94) in the light of some unpublished "procès-verbaux"', London? [page: 335]
Source title: Burlington Magazine (1968) - Callen, A. (1978) Renoir, [page: 50]
- House, John (2004) Impressionism: paint and politics, : Yale University Press [page: 89,91]
[comments: pl.75]
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Accession Number | 2403 (Paintings, Drawings and Prints)
(Reference Number: 2910; Input Date: 2000-03-13 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22) |
Related Resources | French Impressionists - Online Exhibition |
