Object Information

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

Chrysanthemums, 1881/82

Oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 25 15/16 in. (54.7 x 65.9 cm)
Inscribed upper right: Renoir
Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection, 1933.1173

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

Possibly Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Exposition A. Renoir, 1892, cat. 33.

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, November-December, 1908, cat. 12.

New York, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Paintings by Renoir, 1914, cat. 1.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century in Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1- November 1, 1933, cat. 340.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century in Progress, Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1- November 1, 1934, cat. 228.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, February 3-April 1, 1973, cat. 39 (ill.).

Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Exposition Auguste Renoir, September 22-November 6, 1979, cat. 33 (ill.); traveled to Kyoto Municipal Museum, November 11-December 9, 1979.

Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes de Musée de Chicago, June 27- August 31, 1980, cat. 22 (ill.).

Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, October 18-December 17, 1985, cat. 38 (ill.), traveled to Fukuoka Museum of Art, January 5-February 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, March 4-April 13, 1986.

Publication History

M.C., “Renoirs in the Institute,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 19 (1925), pp. 47-48 (ill.).

D.C. Rich, “Französiche Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,” Pantheon 11 (March 1933), p. 78.

The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 34.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), p. 397.

Elda Fezzi, Tout l’oeuvre peint de Renoir période impressioniste 1869-1883 (Milan, 1985), no. 483 (ill.).

Ownership History

Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York on August 25, 1891 for 1,000 francs [according to Tokyo 1979]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (died 1932), Chicago on February 17, 1915 for $ 7,500 [Durand-Ruel stock no. 1721, information kindly provided by Caroline Durand-Ruel Godfroy, 1995]; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1933.