Le canotier de Bougival

Details

PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Le canotier de Bougival
signed 'Renoir.' (centre right)
oil on canvas
16 1/8 x 13 in. (41 x 32.8 cm.)
Painted circa 1879

Provenance

M. de Lauradour, Paris, by whom likely acquired or a gift directly from the artist.
M. & Mme. Gustave Danthon, by March 1929, and thence by descent until at least February 1935.
Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and thence by descent in 1939.
(Probably) Otto Wertheimer, Paris.
Edmond & Jeanne Lévy-Ditisheim, Basel, by whom acquired in the early 1950s, and thence by descent to the present owner.

Literature

E. Fezzi, L'opera completa de Renoir nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883, Milan, 1972, no. 375, pp. 105 & 106 (illustrated)
F. Daulte, Auguste Renoir, New York, 1988, no. 304, p. 415 (illustrated pl. 304).
G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. I, 1858-1881, Paris, 2007, no. 552, p. 537 (illustrated).

Exhibited

London, The Leicester Galleries, The Renoir Exhibition, July - August 1926, no. 19 (dated '1875').
Paris, Galerie Danthon, Vingt-cinq tableaux de Renoir, Monet, etc., March 1929, p. 1.
Basel, Kunstmuseum, on loan, 2002-2015.
Basel, Kunstmuseum, Renoir between Bohemia and Bougeoisie: the early years, April - August 2012, no. 39, p. 114 (illustrated; dated '1875').

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