Landscape between Storms

1874/1875

Auguste Renoir

Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

Auguste Renoir

Attributed to

This horizontal landscape is painted with broad, visible strokes in shades of laurel, fern, and pine green, dark yellow, and ash brown. A winding dirt path leads from the bottom center of the composition toward the horizon, which comes just over halfway up this painting. Thick, loosely painted green foliage dominates the left half of the painting, and a tall, slender tree trunk is near the right edge, partially cut off by the frame. At the center, farther down the path, a small person is painted with a few swipes of coffee brown. Patches of lighter green and yellow suggest sun filtering through the trees. The sky above is filled with swirling white and pale blue clouds, applied with loose brushstrokes that echo the motion of the vegetation below. The artist signed the lower left corner, “renoir.”

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    oil on canvas

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

  • Dimensions

    overall: 24.4 x 32.6 cm (9 5/8 x 12 13/16 in.)
    framed: 45.1 x 52.7 x 6.7 cm (17 3/4 x 20 3/4 x 2 5/8 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1970.17.65

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Capt. Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952;[1] sold 15 August 1955 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969], New York; bequest 1970 to NGA.
[1]Exhibited as part of the Molyneux collection in 1952 at the National Gallery of Art.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1952

  • French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist.

1958

  • Paintings from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, 1958, no. 37

1961

  • French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961, no. 40, repro

1978

  • Small French Paintings from the Bequest of Ailsa Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

2001

  • Extended loan for use by Administrator Michael O. Leavitt in his office at the Environmental Protection Agency, 2004-2005.

  • Extended loan for use by Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2001-2004.

2004

  • Extended loan for use by Administrator Michael O. Leavitt, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2004-2005.

2005

  • Extended loan for use by Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., 2005-2009.

Bibliography

1918

  • Vollard, Ambroise. Tableaux, Pastels & Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris, 1918: repro. 39.

1975

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 298, repro.

1978

  • Small French Paintings from the Bequest of Ailsa Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978: 48, repro. (continuing exhibition beginning in 1978).

1985

  • European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 344, repro.

1997

  • Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 70-71, color repro.

Inscriptions

lower left: renoir

Wikidata ID

Q20188777

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