LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

21.89 in. (55.60 cm.) (height) by 57.99 in. (147.30 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed 'Renoir' (lower right)

Exhibited:

Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, February - April 1973, no. 50, n.p. (illustrated n.p.; titled 'The River God'). Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Renoir, September - November 1979, no. 36, n.p. (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Kyoto, Municipal Museum, November - December 1979.

Literature:

A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Tableaux, pastels et dessins, vol. I, Paris, 1918, no. 9, pp. 3 & n.p. (illustrated p. 3). F. Daulte, Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I, Figures, 1860-1890, Lausanne, 1971, no. 475, n.p. (illustrated n.p.). G.-P. & M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. II, 1882-1894, Paris, 2009, no. 1343, p. 409 (illustrated p. 410). C.B. Bailey, Renoir, Impressionism, and Full-Length Painting, exh. cat., The Frick Collection, New York, 2012, no. 62, n.p. (illustrated).

Provenance:

Ambroise Vollard, Paris, circa 1907. Martin Fabiani, Paris. Walter Feilchenfeldt, Zurich, by 1966, until at least 1979. Acquired by the present owner, by 1987.