Girl with a Basket of Oranges
c. 1889
Artist, French, 1841 - 1919
Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 128.8 x 41.8 cm (50 11/16 x 16 7/16 in.)
framed: 151.1 x 61.9 x 5.1 cm (59 1/2 x 24 3/8 x 2 in.) -
Accession
1956.4.2
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
From the artist 19 April 1891 to the private collection of Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris; sold 13 April 1909 to Eugène Hirsch, Paris; sold 28 September 1911 to (Bernheim-Jeune, Paris); sold 11 December 1911 to (Durand-Ruel, Paris); sold 2 April 1917 to (Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris);[1] sold to Georges Lévy, Paris and chateau Meslay-le-Vidame, by 1933;[2] sold 1937 to (Jacques Seligmann and Co., Paris and New York);[3] sold 27 April 1937 to William Robertson Coe [1869-1955], Oyster Bay, Long Island, NY; [4] bequest 1956 to NGA.
[1] Possibly the painting lent by Rosenberg to an exhibition at Wildenstein's, New York, in 1921.
[2] Lent by Lévy to an exhibition in Paris in 1933.
[3] See 1937 correspondence between Seligmann and Levy regarding the Rosenberg provenance in Seligmann papers at the Archives of American Art, Box 57, folder 28 (copies NGA curatorial records).
[4] Coe acquired the pair of Renoirs and a pair of Hubert Robert paintings for a cash sum and the exchange of a portrait by Tocqué which he had previously acquired from Seligmann; see Seligmann papers at the Archives of American Art, Box 23, folder 8 (copies NGA curatorial records).
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1921
Possibly Exhibition of Paintings by the Great French Impressionists from the Collection of Monsieur Paul Rosenberg of Paris, Wildenstein & Co., New York, 1921/1922, no. 25
1933
Exposition Renoir, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 1933, no. 91, repro.
1937
Exhibition of French Masters from Courbet to Seurat, Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, 1937, no. 18.
1996
Obras Maestras de la National Gallery of Art de Washington, Museo Nacional de Antropología, Mexico City, 1996-1997, unnumbered catalogue, 160-161, color repro.
2008
Renoir: La maturità tra classico e moderno, Complesso del Vittoriano, Rome, 2008, no. 28, repro.
2009
Marius de Zayas. Un destierro moderno., Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico City, 2009, no. 58, repro.
Renoir au XXe siècle, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2009-2010, no. 7, repro.
2016
Renoir, Image of Women, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art; Seoul Museum of Art; The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, 2016-2017, not in catalogue (shown only in Sendai).
Bibliography
1918
Vollard, Ambroise. Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris, 1918:plate 74.
1962
Comstock, Helen. "The Connoisseur in America: Two New Renoirs for the National Gallery." The Connoisseur 599 (January 1962):65-66.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 112.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 99, repro.
1971
François Daulte. Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. Vol.I: Figures 1860-1890. Lausanne, 1971: no. 568.
1972
Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir nel period impressionista. Milan, 1972: 85, 118, no. 647, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 292, repro.
Wheldon, Keith. Renoir and his art. London and New York, 1975: 103, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 469, no. 687, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 337, repro.
2007
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, and Michel Dauberville. Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. 5 vols. Paris, 2007: 2:no. 1113.
Inscriptions
lower right: Renoir
Wikidata ID
Q20190006