Two Sisters (On the Terrace)

1. The artist (d. 1919); sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, July 7, 1881, for 1,500 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1880–82 (no. 1451, as Femme sur une terrasse au bord de la Seine), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; transferred to Durand-Ruel, New York, 1922 [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1904–24 (no. 8124, as Sur la terrasse), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Mrs. Lewis Larned (Annie Swan) Coburn, Chicago, February 4, 1925, for $100,000 [per Durand-Ruel Archives, as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file; see also a letter on Durand-Ruel letterhead, Mar. 18, 1932, verifying that Coburn purchased the painting from Durand-Ruel, on file in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; Bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Paris, 251, rue Saint-Honoré, Salons du Panorama de Reischoffen, 7me exposition des artistes independants [seventh Impressionist exhibition], Mar. 1–31, 1882, cat. 138, as Les deux soeurs.
• Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition des oeuvres de P.-A. Renoir, Apr. 1–25, 1883, cat. 30, as Femme sur une terrasse (Chatou).
• New York, American Art Galleries, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, Apr. 10–28, 1886, cat. 181; New York, National Academy of Design, May 25–June 30, 1886, as On the Terrace.
• Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition A. Renoir, May 1892, cat. 92, as La terrasse. Appartient à M. J. D.
• Berlin, Expo, 1895.
• Saint Petersburg, Internationale de la revue “Le monde artiste à St. Petersbourg,” 1899.
• Paris, Durand-Ruel, Exposition de tableaux de Monet, Pissarro, Renoir & Sisley, Apr. 1899, cat. 81, as Sur la terrasse. 1881.
• Brussels, Libre Esthétique, Exposition des peintres impressionnistes, Feb. 25–Mar. 29, 1904, cat. 130, as Sur la terrasse. Appartient à M. Durand-Ruel.
• Paris, Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, Salon d’automne, Oct. 15–Nov. 15, 1904, cat. 12, as Sur la terrasse.
• London, Grafton Galleries, Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, Exhibited by Messrs. Durand-Ruel & Sons, Jan.–Feb. 1905, cat. 239, as On the Terrace. 1881.
• Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Französische Meister, Ferner werke von Max Liebermann, Walter Leistikow, Ulrich Hübner, Constantin Meunier, Mar. 16–mid-June 1906, cat. 30, as Die Terrasse.
• London, Palace of Fine Arts, Franco-British Exhibition, May 14–Oct. 31, 1908, cat. 397, as La terrasse. Appartient à M. Durand-Ruel.

• Ernest Hoschedé, L’art de la mode (1881), (ill.).
• Catalogue de la 7me exposition des artistes independants, exh. cat. (Morris Pére et Fils, 1882), cat. 138.
• La Fare, “Exposition, des impressionnistes,” Le gaulois, Mar. 2, 1882, p. 2.
• Henry Havard, “Exposition des artistes indépendants,” Le siécle, Mar. 2, 1882, p. 2.
• A. Hustin, “L’exposition des peintres indépendants,” L’estafette, Mar. 3, 1882, p. 3. 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. 395.
• Draner, “Une visite aux impressionnistes,” Le charivari, Mar. 9, 1882, p. 3. 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), pp. 386, 417.
• A. Hustin, “L’exposition des impressionnistes,” Moniteur des arts (Mar. 10, 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. 396.
• Durand-Ruel, Catalogue de l’exposition des oeuvres de P.-A. Renoir, exh. cat. (Pillet & Dumoulin, 1883), p. 12, cat. 30.
• Ph. B. [Philippe Burty], “Les peintures de M. P. Renoir,” La republique française (Apr. 15, 1883), p. 3.
• American Art Association, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, exh. cat. (J. J. Little/American Art Galleries, 1886), p. 31, cat. 181.
• American Art Association, Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris, exh. cat. (National Academy of Design, 1886), p. 45, cat. 181.
• Georges Lecomte, L’art impressionniste d’après la collection privée de M. Durand-Ruel (Chamerot & Renouard, 1892), pp. 137 (ill.), 204, 207.

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