The White Pierrot

between 1901 and 1902

Pierre-Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919

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About the Artwork

Title The White Pierrot

Artwork Date between 1901 and 1902

Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Life Dates 1841-1919

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. French

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. ----------

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 31 1/8 × 24 3/8 inches (79.1 × 61.9 cm) Framed: 40 1/2 × 33 1/4 × 4 1/4 inches (102.9 × 84.5 × 10.8 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Modern Art to 1970

Credit Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 70.178

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Signed Signed, lower right: Renoir

Provenance

until 1919, the artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir;
by descent to Claude Renoir;
before April 1935, (Paul Guillaume, Paris, France);
1935, (Edouard Jonas, Paris, France);
purchased by Robert H. Tannahill [1893-1969] (Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan, USA) with W.R. Valentiner acting as an intermediary;
1970-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Art News, October 11, 1930, p. 10 (ill.).

Fine Art (January 1931): p. 28 (ill.).

Les Arts à Paris. (July 1931): no. 18 (ill.).

Exhibition of French Art 1200-1900. Exh. cat., Royal Academy. London, 1932, p. 211, no. 447 (ill.).

Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900. London, 1932, no. 489.

L'Art vivant (January 1932): (cover ill.).

Formes (January 1932): (ill.).

Renoir. Exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie. Paris, 1933, pp. 47-48, no. 113a, (pl. 54).

Gaunt, W. Renoir. London, 1952, (pl. 85) [as Le Pierrot Blanc, Jean Renoir].

The Robert Hudson Tannahill Bequest to The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 1970, pp. 11, 29, 48 (ill.).

Reader's Digest Family Treasure of Great Biographies 10. Pleasantville, New York, 1971, p. 141 (ill.) [as Jean as "The White Pierrot'].

Masterpieces from The Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Bunkamura Museum of Art, Municipal Museum of Art, and Museum of Modern Art. Tokyo, Kyoto, and Ibaraki, 1989, pp. 97, 175, 222, cat. 65 (ill.).

Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Kimbell Art Museum. Ottawa, Chicago, and Fort Worth, 1997, pp. 232-234, 329-330, cat. 58 (ill.) [as 1901-1902].

Renoir: Modern Eyes. Kwamura Memorial Museum of Art, Miyagi Museum of Art, and Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art. Sakura, Sendai, and Sapporo, 1999, p. 162, cat. 68 (ill.).

1900: Art at the Crossroads. Exh. cat., Royal Academy of Arts and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. London and New York, 2000, pp. 177, 438, cat. 104 (ill.).

Treasures from the Detroit Institute of Arts: Masters of Impressionism and Modern Art. Exh. cat., Sogo Museum of Art, Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art, Fukui Fine Arts Museum, and Yawatahama Citizen Gallery. Yokohama, Kitakyushu, Fukushima, Fukui, and Yawatahama, 2001, p. 66, no. 12, (ill.) p. 67.

Renoir: La maturità tra classico e moderno. Rome, 2008, p. 42, (fig. 7).

Cantz, Hatjie. Renoir in the 20th Century/Renoir au XXe siècle. Exh. cat, Grand Palais, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Philadelphia Museum of Art. Paris, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia, 2009, pp. 256-259 (ill.), cat. 42.

Eiling, Alexander, ed. in collaboration with Juliane Betz and Fabienne Ruppen. Renoir: Rococo Revival. Exh. cat., Städel Museum. Frankfurt am Main, 2022, p. 283 (fig. 4).

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