#headerimage { background-image: url(/gallery/hotw/site_images/coins_header3.jpg); } #content p { font-size: 0.69em; color: #666666; line-height: 15px; margin: 7px 20px 7px 20px; } #content h1{ color: #254B85; } #content h2{ color:#2B579B; } #content p { font-size: 0.75em; line-height: 1.5em; } #contentright p { margin: 6px 5px 6px 8px; font-size: 0.69em; } #contentright h1{ background-color: #254B85; } #content p a:hover { color: #254B85; border-style: none; } /* Navigation */ .SF_menu_level_1 a:link, .SF_menu_level_1 a:visited { color: #ffffff; background: #999999 no-repeat; border-left-color: #999999; border-bottom-color: #D8DBF1; padding-top: 5px; height: 15px; width: 155px; border-left-width: 7px; } .SF_menu_level_1_highlight a:link, .SF_menu_level_1_highlight a:visited { color: #ffffff; background: #254B85!important; border-bottom-color: #D8DBF1; border-left-color: #254B85; padding-top: 5px; height: 15px; width: 155px; border-left-width: 7px; } .SF_menu_level_1 a:hover { color: #ffffff; background: #999999; border-left-color: #EAA73C; padding-top: 5px; height: 15px; width: 155px; border-left-width: 7px; } .SF_menu_level_1 a:hover , .SF_menu_level_1_highlight a:hover { border-left-color: #EAA73C; } /* SUB NAV LIST */ .SF_menu_level_2 a:link, .SF_menu_level_2 a:visited { color: #666666; background: #CCCCCC; width: 144px; border-left-width: 7px; border-left-color: #CCCCCC; border-bottom-color: #E1EBEB; } .SF_menu_level_2_highlight a:link, .SF_menu_level_2_highlight a:visited { color: #666666; background: #E1E1E1!important ; width: 144px; border-left-width: 7px; border-left-color:#E1E1E1; } .SF_menu_level_2 a:hover , .SF_menu_level_2_highlight a:hover { color: #666666; background-color: #CCCCCC; width: 144px; border-left-width: 7px; border-left-color:#EAA73C; }

[Back to results screen]

This full record display is using an old version of our collections database until it has been reconfigured to work with our new Collections Explorer.
In the meantime, if the record has been edited recently, the version you see here may contain out of date information. To be sure of finding the most up-to-date records please run the search again in Collections Explorer. This is a temporary measure, in place only whilst the new system is being developed, and we apologise for any inconvenience. If you have any questions about the data in this record please contact the Documentation Office

The Gust of Wind (Le grand vent)

Renoir, Pierre Auguste (painter)

Image["This image represents the relative size of the object"]
  [explain]

Click on image(s) for larger view

Title/s

The Gust of Wind

Translated title

Le grand vent

Maker/s

Renoir, Pierre Auguste (painter) [ULAN info: French artist, 1841-1919]

Category

painting

Name

painting

School/Style

French

Technique Description

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 52.0 cm
width: 82.5 cm

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

Inscriptions/Marks

1. signature
   Position: lower right
   Method:
   Content: A. Renoir
   
2. label
   Position: verso
   Method:
   Content: City of Manchester Art Gallery, Lender F. Hindley Smith, Title the Gust of Wind, Artist, Renoir
   
3. label
   Position: verso
   Method: ink
   Content: Renoir, 618, le coup de Vent
   
4. label
   Position: verso
   Method: ink
   Content: Alph. Kahn. Renoir, Le Coup de Vent, 1873
   
5. label
   Position: verso
   Method: ink
   Content: Renoir, Le Coup de Vent, Col. Kahn
   
6. 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
   
7. label
   Position: verso
   Method: printed label
   Content: Walker Art Galler, Liverpool - lent F.Hindley Smith
   
8. label
   Position: verso
   Method: printed label
   Content: City of Manchester Art Gallery (evidently for same exhibition as the first label)
   
9. label
   Position: verso
   Method: dealers stock label
   Content: Renoir 5386 / Paysage ppbd
   
10. label
    Position: verso
    Method: dealers stock number
    Content: ph 3052
    

Documentation

1. (2005) Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum, London: Scala [page: 108]
2. (1923) The Impressionist School and some great French Painters of the Nineteenth Century, London?
   [comments: exhibition catalogue, reproduced]
3. Laver, James (1937) French Painting and the Nineteenth Century,
   [comments: fig. 87]
4. 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]
5. (1949-50) Landscape in French Art, London?
   [comments: exhibition catalogue, Book of Illustrations, pl. 62]
6. (1952) Handbook and Guide to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.)
   [comments: pl. IV, (also in 1954 and 1957 editions)]
7. Winter, Carl (1958) The Fitzwilliam Museum, An Illustrated Survey, London: Trianon Press [page: 403]
8. Winter, Carl (1959) Treasures of Cambridge (Illustrations), London?
   [comments: pl. 43]
9. 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]
10. Bodelsen, Merete 'Early Impressionist Sales (1874-94) in the light of some unpublished "procès-verbaux"', London? [page: 335]
    Source title: Burlington Magazine (1968)
11. Callen, A. (1978) Renoir, [page: 50]
12. House, John (2004) Impressionism: paint and politics, : Yale University Press [page: 89,91]
    [comments: pl.75]

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

Related Image/s

Image[no alt text]

[back to top]