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Currently not on display

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Limoges, 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, 1919

Copy after the Painting by Rubens "The Council of Gods"

Date 1861
Materials and Techniques oil on canvas
Size(cm) 45.8 x 83.5
Credit Line Donated by Mr. Ryuzaburo Umehara
Standard ref. Daulte 7; Dauberville 226
Category Paintings
Collection Number P.1975-0003

Provenance

Charles Viguier, Paris; M. Pottier, Paris; Joseph Hessel, Paris; Alfred Savoir, Paris; Palais Galliéra, Paris, 27 Mar. 1973, no. 99; Palais des Congrès, Versailles, 3 Mar. 1974, no. 103; Donated by Mr. Ryuzaburo Umehara, Tokyo, 1975

Exhibition History

1988
Renoir Retrospective, Nagoya City Art Museum, 15 October 1988 - 11 December 1988, cat. no. 1, col. repr.
1997
Expressiveness of Materials, National Museum of Art, Osaka, 19 April 1997 - 22 June 1997, cat. no. 30
2010
Renoir: Tradition and Innovation, The National Art Center, Tokyo, 20 January 2010 - 5 April 2010, cat. no. 49, col. repr.
2015
NO MUSEUM, NO LIFE?: Art-Museum Encyclopedia to Come: From the Collections of the National Museums of Art, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, 16 June 2015 - 13 September 2015, cat. no. O-3
2018
Rubens and the Birth of the Baroque, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 16 October 2018 - 20 January 2019
2019
Renoir: The Body, The Senses , The Clark Art Institute, 8 June 2019 - 22 September 2019, The Kimbell Art Museum, 27 October 2019-26 January 2020, cat. no. 2
2022
Transformation: Arts Crossing Borders in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Artizon Museum, 29 April 2022 - 10 July 2022, cat. no. 7, col. repr.

Bibliography

1971
Daulte, François. Auguste Renoir: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint, 1: figures, 1860-1890. Lausanne, Durand-Ruel, 1971, no. 7, repr.
1972
Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir, nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883. Milano, 1972, , no. 4, repr. (French ver. Tout l'œuvre peint de Renoir : Période Impressionniste 1869-1883. Paris, Flammarion, 1985, Les Classiques de l'art. no. 4, repr. )
1972
Arts Review. vol. 24, no. 20, May 1972, London, Richard Gainsborough Periodicals, no.10, repr. col. cover.
1977
Bulletin Annuel du Musée National d’Art Occidental, No. 10 (1975), 1977, Nouvelles acquisitions, par Chisaburoh F. Yamada, p. 7. Nouvelles acquisitions (catalogue). pp. 18-19. repr.
1979
The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo: Catalogue of paintings. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, 1979, no. 238, repr.
1985
Fezzi, Elda. Tout L'oeuvre Peint de Renoir: Période Impressionniste 1869-1883. éd. francaise, Paris, Flammarion, 1985, p. 89, cat. no. 4, repr.
1988
Renoir retrospective (exh. cat.). Nagoya City Art Museum, ed. [Nagoya], The Chunichi Shimbun, [1988], pp. 36-37, 233, cat. no. 1, col. repr.
2007
Dauberville, Guy-Patrice; Dauberville, Michel. Renoir: catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. vol. 1, Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, 2007, p. 271, no. 226.
2010
Renoir: tradition and innovation(exh. cat.). The National Museum of Art, Osaka; The National Art Center, Tokyo; Pola Museum of Art; The Yomiuri Shimbun, Osaka, Culture Department, eds. Osaka, The Yomiuri Shimbun, Osaka, 2010, cat. no. 49, col. repr.
2012
Renoir: between Bohemia and Bourgeoisie: the Early Years (exh. cat.). Zimmer, Nina, ed. Ostfildern, Hatje Cantz, 2012, pp. 91-92, fig. 35, col. repr.
2016
Bonjour, Monsieur Renoir: Renoir et Umehara: Joie de Peindre (exh. cat.). Mitsubishi Ichigoukan Museum, Tokyo et al., eds. [Tokyo], Curators, 2016, p. 65, fig. 3, repr.
2018
Rubens and the Birth of the Baroque (exh. cat.). Lo Bianco, Anna; Watanabe Shinsuke, eds. Tokyo, TBS Television, 2018, pp. 161, 291, col. repr.
2019
Renoir: The Body, The Senses(exh. cat.). Williamstown, Massachusetts, Clark Art Institute; Fort Worth, Texas, Kimbell Art Museum, [2019], cat. no. 2, col. repr.
2022
Transformation: Arts Crossing Borders in the 19th and 20th Centuries (exh. cat.). 島本英明編集. [Tokyo], Artizon Museum, Ishibashi Foundation, 2022, pp. 24-25, 157, 160, cat. no. 7, col. repr.

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