About the Artwork
Clearing in the Woods
1865
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919
French
Unknown
Oil on canvas
Unframed: 22 1/2 × 32 1/2 inches (57.2 × 82.6 cm) Framed: 29 5/8 × 40 1/8 × 4 1/8 inches (75.2 × 101.9 × 10.5 cm)
Paintings
European Modern Art to 1970
Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head, in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head
1985.25
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Markings
Signed, lower left: Renoir
Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris, France);(Galerie Bignou, Paris, France and New York, New York, USA);
ca. 1946, (Alex Reid Lefèvre Galleries, London, England);
1953-1955, (Arthur Tooth & Sons, London, England);
December 29, 1955, purchased by Colonel & Mrs. Henry Nugent Head (New York, New York, USA);
by descent, Mrs. Ruth Nugent Head [formerly Ruth Kresge, daugher of Anna E. Kresge];
1985-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Rewald, J. The History of Impressionism. New York, 1946, p. 88, (repr.) Reprint, New York, 1961, p. 98, (repr.).
Four Masters of Impressionism: [Exhibition] October 24-November 30, 1968, Exh. cat., Acquavella Galleries, Inc. Reprint, New York, 1968, cat. 1, (repr.).
E. Fezzi and Henry, J. Tout l-oeuvre peint de Renoir periode impressioniste 1869-1883. Paris, 1972, pp. 89-90, cat. 9. Reprint, Flammarion, Paris, 1985 [Revised edition].
Champa, K. S. Studies in Early Impressionism. New Haven, 1973, p. 39 (fig. 54).
Paintings by Renoir. Exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, 1973, cat. 3, repr.
"Annual Report-Accessions," Bulleting of the DIA 62, no. 2. 1985, pp. 13, 19, 21, (fig. 18).
The Rise of Landscape Painting in France Corot to Monet. Exh. cat., Currier Gallery of Art. Manchester, New Hampshire, 1991, pp. 207-208, cat. 100, repr. [not in exhibition-exh. organized by K. S. Champa et al].
Wissman, F. W. European Vistas: Cultural Landscapes. Detroit, 2000, p. 67, repr.
Renoir Landscapes, 1865-1883. Exh. cat., National Gallery. London, 2007, pp. 86-87, (ill.).
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Clearing in the Woods, 1865, oil on canvas. Detroit Institute of Arts, Bequest of Ruth Nugent Head, in memory of her mother, Anna E. Kresge, and her husband, Henry W. Nugent Head, 1985.25.
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