Studies of Trees and Foliage

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Prints and Drawings

1884/87

Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

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Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Title: Studies of Trees and Foliage
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1884–1887
Medium: Pen and black ink with opaque and transparent watercolor on ivory wove paper
Dimensions: 49.7 × 30.9 cm (19 5/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer
Reference Number: 1948.75
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John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (H. Bittner, 1946), p. 21, no. 50 (ill.).
Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 92, no. 5D11.
Douglas W. Druick, Renoir, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 1997), pp. 71, 91, 111, no. 18 (ill.).
Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 2, 1882–1894 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2009), p. 579, no. 1630 (ill.).
“Cat. 20: Studies of Trees and Foliage,” in Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https://publications.artic.edu/renoir/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/138973.

Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, “Aquarelles, pastels et dessins par Renoir,” Apr. 4–23, 1921, cat. 16.1110
Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, 1944–1947.
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.

Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris [Tokyo 1979]. Fraysse collection, Paris, by 1938 [Durlacher Brothers, stock card MM129]. Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York, to Philip Hofer (1898–1984), Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 28, 1938 [Durlacher Brothers stock card MM129]; consigned to Durlacher Brothers, New York, Oct. 1947 [Philip Hofer to Kirk Askew, Sept. 23, 1947; Askew to Hofer, Sept. 20, 1947; and Hofer to Askew, Western Union telegram, Oct. 3 1947]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.

Cat. 20 Studies of Trees and Foliage, 1884/87

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