Lucie Berard (Child in White) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Lucie Berard (Child in White)

Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1883

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Commissioned by Paul Berard (1833-1905) (father of sitter), Wargemont and Paris [per Bailey 1997]; sold, Paul Berard sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, May 8, 1905, lot 20, to, J. E. D. Pieyre Lacombe de Mandiargues (1879–1916) (husband of sitter), for 10,030 francs [per auction catalogue, 1905]. André Schoeller, Paris, by May 25, 1912 [this and the following per Dauberville and Dauberville 2009]; sold to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, May 25, 1912, for 11,000 francs; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, February 26, 1913, for 23,500 francs [per purchase receipt from Bernheim-Jeune to Monsieur A. [sic] Ryerson, photocopy in curatorial object file]; Bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Possibly Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition des oeuvres de P.-A. Renoir, Apr. 1–25, 1883, cat. 20, as Portrait. Appartenant à M. Berard.
  • Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon d’automne, Oct. 18–Nov. 25, 1905, cat. 1322, as Portrait d’enfant en robe blanche.
  • Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition Renoir, Mar. 10–29, 1913, cat. 25, as L’enfant en robe blanche. App. à M. R.
  • Pittsburgh, Carnegie Institute, Paintings: Édouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Oct. 15–Dec. 1, 1924, cat. 20.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 339.
  • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Manet and Renoir, Nov. 29, 1933–Jan. 1, 1934, no cat. no.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 227.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 3–Apr. 1, 1973, cat. 46 (ill.).
  • Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Modern Masters, Manet to Matisse, Apr. 10–May 11, 1975, cat. 96 (ill.); Melbourne, National Gallery of Victoria, May 28–June 22, 1975; New York, Museum of Modern Art, Aug. 4–Sept. 28, 1975.
  • Tokyo, Seibu Museum of Art, Shikago bijutsukan insho-ha ten [The Impressionist tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago], Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 37 (ill.); Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986.
  • Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Renoir’s Portraits: Impressions of an Age, June 27–Sept. 14, 1997, cat. 47 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998; Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, Feb. 8–Apr. 26, 1998.
  • Rome, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Aug. 21, 2001–Jan. 23, 2002.

Literature

Published references

  • Possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris, Catalogue de l’exposition des oeuvres de P.-A. Renoir, exh. cat. (Pillet et Dumoulin, 1883), p. 11, cat. 20.
  • Société du Salon d’Automne, Catalogue de peinture, dessin, sculpture, gravure, architecture et art décoratif, exh. cat. (Cie Français des Papiers-Monnaie, 1905), p. 146, cat. 1322.
  • Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, Catalogue des tableaux modernes, aquarelles, pastels . . . , Provenant de la collection de feu M. Paul Berard, sale cat. (Georges Petit, Paris, May 8–9, 1905), pp. 30–31, lot 20 (ill.).
  • Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Exposition Renoir, exh. cat. (Bernheim-Jeune, 1913), cat. 25.
  • Bernheim-Jeune, Renoir, with a preface by Octave Mirbeau (Bernheim-Jeune, 1913), opp. p. 22 (ill.), p. 58.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings, Sculpture, and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 211, cat. 2144.
  • Guillaume Janneau, “Impressions d’Amérique,” Le bulletin de la vie artistique 2, 8 (Apr. 15, 1921), p. 237 (ill.).
  • Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings: Edouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, exh. cat. (Carnegie Institute, [1924]), no. 20.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1925), p. 162, cat. 2153.
  • M. C., “Renoirs in the Institute (Continued),” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 19, 4 (Apr. 1925), pp. 48, 49 (ill.).
  • Ambroise Vollard, Renoir: An Intimate Record, trans. Harold L. Van Doren and Randolph T. Weaver (Knopf, 1925), p. 241.
  • Daniel Catton Rich, “Französische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,” Pantheon: Monatsschrift für Freunde und Sammler der Kunst 11, 3 (Mar. 1933), p. 78. Translated by C. C. H. Drechsel as “French Impressionists in the Art Institute of Chicago,” Pantheon/Cicerone (Mar. 1933), p. 18.

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