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Madame Henriot
Pierre-Auguste Renoirc. 1876
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Madame Henriot
- Creator: Auguste Renoir
- Date Created: c. 1876
- Physical Dimensions: painted surface: 65.8 x 49.5 cm (25 7/8 x 19 1/2 in.) stretcher size: 68.8 x 53.6 cm (27 1/16 x 21 1/8 in.) framed: 102.9 x 87 cm (40 1/2 x 34 1/4 in.)
- Provenance: Possibly Doctor Vaucaire, Paris. Possibly Mme Berne-Bellecour, Paris.[1] Probably Dr. Georges de Bellio [1828-1894], Paris; probably by inheritance to M et Mme [she, née Victorine de Bellio, 1863-1958] Ernest Donop de Monchy, Paris. Alexandre Berthier [1883-1918], 4th Prince de Wagram, Paris; probably by inheritance to his sister, Élisabeth Marguerite, Princesse de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, Paris. sold by Wagram heirs though (Canadeesche Hypothek Bank) through (Étienne Bignou, Paris) to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London); on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York and Paris) and (Marcel Kapferer); sold September 1929 to Baron Maurice de Rothschild [1881-1957]. [2] (Paul Rosenberg et Cie., Paris), by 1934.[3] Acquired by 1941 by Dr. David M. [1892-1977] and Adele Rosenwald [1892-1960] Levy, New York;[4] gift 1961 to NGA. [1] Vaucaire and Mme Berne-Bellecour according to the he Bignou albums at the documentation center of the Musée d'Orsay (copy in NGA curatorial files). The latter is possibly the wife of the artisit Eitenne Prosper Berne-Bellecour [1838-1910]. [2] Reid & Lefèvre Paintings Sold, sheet no. 211, #28/29 B1424 gives acquisition source and partial share information (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283). [3] Reproduced in Carroll Carstairs, _Postscript to Criticism_, London, 1934, crediting Paul Rosenberg. [4] The painting was lent by Dr. and Mrs. Levy to a 1941 exhibition in New York.
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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