Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)

1. The artist (d. 1919); deposited with Durand-Ruel, Paris, Apr. 6, 1881 [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1879–84 (no. 3155, as Les Petites acrobates), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 12, 1882, for 2,000 francs. [This transaction is recorded in the Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1880–82 (no. 2362, as Les Saltimbanques), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Potter Palmer (d. 1902), Chicago, May 11, 1892, for 8,000 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1891 (no. 319, as Dans le cirque), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; by descent to his wife, Bertha Honoré Palmer (d. 1918), Chicago; by descent their sons, Honoré and Potter Potter; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Offices of La vie moderne, Cinquième exposition de La vie moderne, P.-A. Renoir, June 19–July 3, 1879, no cat.
• Paris, 251, rue Saint-Honoré, Salons du Panorama de Reischoffen, 7me exposition des artistes independants [seventh Impressionist exhibition], Mar. 1–31, 1882, no cat. no.
• New York, American Art Galleries, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, Apr. 10–28, 1886, cat. 209; New York, National Academy of Design, May 25–June 30, 1886, as Au Cirque.
• Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition A. Renoir, May 1892, cat. 3, as Au Cirque.
• Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, Exhibition of French Painting of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Mar. 6–Apr. 7, 1929, cat. 80 (ill.).
• Northampton, Mass., Smith College Museum of Art, One Picture Exhibition, Oct. 29–Nov. 29, 1932, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Children’s Museum, Circus Scenes, Dec. 2–19, 1932, no cat.
• Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 351 (ill.).
• Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 240.
• Baltimore Museum of Art, A Survey of French Painting, Nov. 23, 1934–Jan. 1, 1935, cat. 33 (ill.).
• Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, A Survey of French Painting, Apr. 2–May 14, 1936, cat. 42.
• Cleveland Museum of Art, The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition, June 26–Oct. 4, 1936, cat. 302.

• Edmond Renoir, “Cinquième exposition de La vie moderne, P.-A. Renoir,” La vie moderne 1, 11 (June 19, 1879) p. 175.
• L. de Beaumarchez, “5e exposition de la ‘Vie moderne.’ P.-A. Renoir,” La presse, June 23, 1879, p. 2.
• Fichtre, “L’actualité: L’exposition des peintres independents,” Le réveil, Mar. 2, 1882, p. 1. Reprinted in Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886; Documentation, vol. 1, Reviews (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of Washington Press, 1996), p. 387.
• American Art Association, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, exh. cat. (J. J. Little/American Art Galleries, 1886), p. 35, cat. 209.
• American Art Association, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1886), p. 48, cat. 209.
• “French Impressionists,” New York Times, May 28, 1886, p. 5.
• Durand-Ruel, Paris, Exposition A. Renoir, exh. cat. (Imp. de l’Art/E. Ménard, 1892), p. 37, no. 3.
• Julius Meier-Graefe, Auguste Renoir (R. Piper, 1911), p. 16. Translated into French by A. S. Maillet as Auguste Renoir (H. Floury, 1912), p. 12.
• Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 1 (A. Vollard, 1918), p. 87, no. 348 (ill.).
• Ambroise Vollard, La vie and l’oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (A. Vollard, 1919), p. 67. Translated by Harold L. Van Doren and Randolph T. Weaver as Renoir: An Intimate Record (Knopf, 1925), pp. 69, 237.
• Georges Rivière, Renoir et ses amis (H. Floury, 1921), pp. 145 (ill.), 146.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Forty-Third Annual Report for the Year 1921 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1921), p. 39 (ill.).

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