Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paysage du midi
Property from a Private European Collection
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841 - 1919
Paysage du midi
signed Renoir (lower right)
oil on canvas
27.2 by 46.3cm., 10¾ by 18¼in.
Framed: 53.2cm by 71.6cm., 21 by 28¼in.
Painted circa 1910.
This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute.
The canvas is not lined, the edges are taped and inspection under UV light does not reveal any signs of retouching. There is a pinprick-sized loss towards the lower right corner and a few very fine lines of craquelure in places only visible under very close inspection. There is some surface dirt and fly spots in places. This work is in overall very good condition.
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Ambroise Vollard, Paris (acquired from the artist before 1919)
The Leclerc family, France (sold: Mercier & Cie, Lille, 15th December 1996, lot 178)
Sale: Christie's, London, 21st June 2006, lot 203
Purchased at the above sale by the present owner
Lille, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Un demi-siècle de Peinture Française 1900-1950, 1950, no. 105 (titled Paysage)