Madame Léon Clapisson

1. Commissioned by Louis Léon Clapisson (husband of sitter), Neuilly, for 3,000 francs [per Bailey 1997]; by descent to Marie Henriette Valentine Billet Clapisson (wife), Neuilly, 1894; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, November 12, 1908, for 15,000 francs [per Distel, “Appendix II: The Notebooks of Léon Clapisson,” Bailey 1997]. Durand-Ruel, New York, by July 8, 1913; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, July 8, 1913, for $12,000 [per purchase receipt on Durand-Ruel letterhead, dated July 8, 1913, records that this painting (no. 3422, as Portrait de Mme Clapisson, 1883) was sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to Martin A. Ryerson for $12,000; photocopy in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, Palais des Champs-Élysées, Société des Artistes Français, Salon, May 1–June, 1883, cat. 2031, as Portrait de Mme C. . . .
• Paris, Galerie Georges Petit, 5e exposition internationale de peinture et de sculpture, June 15–July 15, 1886, cat. 125, as Portrait de Mme C. Appartient à M. Clapisson.
• Paris, Durand-Ruel, Tableaux par Monet, C. Pissarro, Renoir, et Sisley, June 1–30, 1910, cat. 43, as Portrait de Mme C. 1883.
• Possibly New York, Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 14–Mar. 16, 1912, cat. 7, as Jeune femme à l’éventail, 1883.
• Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 229.
• Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, The Sources of Modern Painting: A Loan Exhibition Assembled from American Public and Private Collections, Mar. 2–Apr. 9, 1939; New York, Wildenstein, Apr. 25–May 20, 1939, cat. 5 (ill.) (New York only).
• Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 3–Apr. 1, 1973, cat. 45 (ill.).
• New York, Wildenstein, Renoir: The Gentle Rebel; A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Association for Mentally Ill Children, Oct. 24–Nov. 30, 1974, cat. 26 (ill.).
• London, Hayward Gallery, Renoir, Jan. 30–Apr. 21, 1985, cat. 70 (ill.); Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, May 14–Sept. 2, 1985, cat. 69 (ill.); Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 9, 1985–Jan. 5, 1986.
• Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada, Renoir’s Portraits: Impressions of an Age, June 27–Sept. 14, 1997, cat. 46 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17, 1997–Jan. 4, 1998; Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, Feb. 8–Apr. 26, 1998.
• San Diego Museum of Art, Idol of the Moderns: Pierre-Auguste Renoir and American Painting, June 29–Sept. 15, 2002, cat. 3 (ill.); El Paso (Tex.) Museum of Art, Nov. 3, 2002–Feb. 16, 2003.
• Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 31 (ill.).

• Catalogue illustré du Salon, under the direction of F.-G. Dumas, exh. cat. (Librairie d’Art L. Baschet, 1883), p. 44, cat. 2031.
• Explication des ouvrages de peinture, sculpture, architecture, gravure et lithographie des artistes vivants (Bernard, 1883), p. 185, cat. 2031.
• Galerie Georges Petit, Exposition internationale de peinture et de sculpture, cinquième année, exh. cat. (Renou & Maulde, 1886), p. 23, cat. 125.
• Félix Fénéon, “Ve exposition internationale,” La vogue (June 28–July 5, 1886), p. 342.
• Durand-Ruel, Paris, Tableaux par Monet, C. Pissarro, Renoir, et Sisley, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1910), p. 5, cat. 43.
• “Renoir at Durand-Ruel’s,” American Art News 10, 19 (Feb. 17, 1912), pp. 2, 9 (ill.).
• Possibly Durand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, New York, 1912), cat. 7.
• Art Institute of Chicago, General Catalogue of Paintings Sculpture and Other Objects in the Museum (Art Institute of Chicago, 1914), p. 211, cat. 2142.
• Ambroise Vollard, La vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 2 (A. Vollard, 1919), p. 92.
• Ambroise Vollard, “Le salon de Mme Charpentier,” L’art et les artistes 1 (Jan. 1920), p. 164.
• François Fosca, Renoir (F. Rieder, 1923), p. 61; pl. 19. Translated by Hubert Wellington as Renoir, Masters of Modern Art (Dodd, Mead, 1924), p. 6; pl. 24.
• Théodore Duret, Renoir (Bernheim-Jeune, 1924), p. 70. Translated into English by Madeleine Boyd as Renoir (Crown, 1937), pp. 52; pl. 56.

Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

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Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (Francisca and Angelina Wartenberg)

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Woman at the Piano

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Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (The Rowers' Lunch)

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Chrysanthemums

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Seascape

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Near the Lake

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Alfred Sisley

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