Dance in the Country

1883

Auguste Renoir

Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

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Artwork overview


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris); (Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York); purchased 4 January 1965 by Norton Simon, Pasadena; purchased 14 March 1973 by (E.V. Thaw & Co., New York); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1948

  • Drawings: Brueghel to Cezanne. Schaeffer Galleries, Inc., New York, March, 1948.

1965

  • Special exhibition for College Arts Association. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, January 18-April 16, 1965.

2011

  • Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Tokyo; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Kyoto, 2011, unnumbered catalogue.

2017

  • Renoir and Friends: Luncheon of the Boating Party, The Phillips Collection, Washington, 2017-2018.

Bibliography

1948

  • Schaeffer Galleries Bulletin no. 4 (March 1948), unnumbered and unpaginated.

1971

  • Daulte, François. August Renoir. Milan, 1971: no. 2 (repr.).

2010

  • Jones, Kimberly A. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 2010.

Inscriptions

recto: lower left in graphite: R.; verso: by later hand, lower center in blue pencil: 3915 [in box]

Markings

none

Watermarks

J. WHATMAN / TURKEY MILL / 1881

Wikidata ID

Q64536954


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