The Young Soldier

c. 1880

Auguste Renoir

Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

  • Dimensions

    overall: 54.93 × 33.02 cm (21 5/8 × 13 in.)
    framed: 68.58 × 46.04 × 4.45 cm (27 × 18 1/8 × 1 3/4 in.)

  • Accession

    2014.18.46

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Theodore Duret [1838-1927], Paris; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 18 March 1894, no. 38); Alexandre Natanson [1867-1936], Paris.[1] (Jos Hessel, Paris), by 1932.[2] (Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York), 1935.[2] Mrs. Phyllis Lutgens, New York; (her sale, Sotheby’s, London, 29 April 1964, no. 54); Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014].
[1] François Daulte, Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, 5 vols., Lausanne, 1971: 1:no. 252.
[2] Naval and Military Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co, New York, 1932, no. 12.
[3] Exhibited at Carstairs, French Impressionists and After, December 1935 to January 1936; reproduced in James W. Lane, “Current Exhibitions,” Parnassus 8, no. 1 (January 1936): 24.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1932

  • Naval and Military Portraits, M. Knoedler & Co, New York, 1932, no. 12.

1935

  • French Impressionists and After, Carroll Carstairs Gallery, New York, 1935-1936.

1966

  • French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no.104, repro.

2018

  • William J. Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Affinities and Distinctions, NSU Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, 2018-2019, pl. 1.

Bibliography

1936

  • James W. Lane, “Current Exhibitions,” Parnassus 8, no. 1 (January 1936): 24, repro.

1971

  • Daulte, François. Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Vol.1. Figures 1860-1890. Lausanne, 1971: no. 252, repro.

2007

  • Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Michel Dauberville. Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. 5 vols. Paris, 2007: no. 520, repro.

Inscriptions

lower right: Renoir

Wikidata ID

Q20188877

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