Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

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Pierre Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

Enfant au Polichinelle

signed and dated lower left Renoir 75, oil on canvas
21 7/8 x 18in. (55.5 x 45.7cm.)

Painted in 1875

Provenance

M. de la Pommeraye, Paris
Galerie Barbazanges, Paris
Meyer-Goodfriend, New York; sale, American Art Association, New York, Jan. 4-5 1923, lot 82
Mr. and Mrs. Sears, Baston
Wildenstein & Co., New York
Dunbar W. Bostwick, New York

Literature

F. Daulte, Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Lausanne, 1971, no. 119 (illustrated)
E. Fezzi, L'Opera completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista, Milan, 1972, no. 157 (illustrated p. 96)

Exhibited

New York, Wildenstein & Co., The Child through Four Centuries, March 1945, no. 38 (illustrated on the front cover)
New York, Wildenstein & Co., Renoir, March-April 1950, no. 15 (illustrated p. 42)
London, Wildenstein, Masterpieces, May-July 1951, no. 18 (illustrated)
Washington D.C., National Gallery of Art, Masterpieces of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings, April-May 1959, no. 42

Lot Essay

The present painting is a portrait of Pierre de la Pommeraye, the second son of M. de la Pommeraye, a friend of Charles Deudon and Henri Cernuschi. Renoir painted portraits of his elder brother Jean around the same time (Daulte 120) and his younger daughter a year later in 1876 (Daulte 221). The two boys are both depicted holding a harlequin doll.

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