About This Artwork
Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919
Studies of Trees and Foliage1884/87
Pen and black ink with watercolor on ivory wove paper
495 x 308 mm
Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer, 1948.75
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present," March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 69.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 69 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 130-131, cat. 62 (ill.).
Tokyo, L'Isetan Museum of Art, "Auguste Renoir," September 22-November 6, 1979; traveled to the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, November 11-December 9, 1979.
Publication History
John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, 1946), p. 21, no. 50 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century 2 (Chicago, 1979), p. 92, no. 5D11.
Ownership History
Philip Hofer (died 1984), Cambridge, Mass. by 1946 [Rewald 1946]. Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York, to the Art Institute, 1948.