Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Road to Berneval, ca. 1880
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Oil on canvas, 50 x 61 cm
Signed lower right: Renoir.
Inv.-no. MB-Ren-04
Pierre-Auguste Renoir applied the paint in thin layers on a white, primed canvas. As in a watercolor, the light comes from the priming. The road guides the gaze like a funnel of light to a group of three figures in blue working clothes who are coming from the harvesting of mussels. Mussels from the coast of Normandy were sold in Paris as “oysters of the poor.”
Twelfth Annual Exhibition, City Art Museum, St. Louis, 1895, no. 472
Fourth Annual Exhibition, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, 1899/1900, no. 472
Paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1900, no. 34
Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1908, no. 15
Paintings by Renoir, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, 1920, no. 12
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, January 21–May 28, 2017
Impressionism: The Hasso Plattner Collection, Museum Barberini, Potsdam, from September 5, 2020
June 15, 1882, Galerie
Durand-Ruel, Paris, purchased from the artist
1892, Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York, acquired from the above
1926, Private collection, Cleveland, acquired from the above
n.d., Private collection, USA, inherited from the above
May 9, 2013, Sotheby’s, New York, lot 439, consigned by the above
Elda Fezzi, Tout l'œuvre peint de Renoir, période impressionniste 1869–1883, Paris 1985, no. 403, p. 106
Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 1, Paris 2007, no. 100, ill. p. 172
Impressionism: The Art of Landscape, exh. cat. Museum Barberini, Potsdam 2017, no. 26, p. 42, 115, ill. p. 124
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