The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Landscape with a Path between Trees

Landscape with a Path between Trees

Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)

Date:: ca. 1886
Medium:: Watercolor with touches of white gouache on wove paper
Dimensions:: sheet: 10 13/16 x 13 13/16 in. (27.4 x 35.1 cm)
Classification:: Drawings
Credit Line:: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
Accession Number:: 2003.20.11

This artwork is not on display

Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings

Signature: Lower right in graphite: "R."

Inscription: Verso: PH 1406 [twice]; French customs stamp; in graphite: "for Haupt"

Marking: Stamped, lower right, with initial: R
Provenance

Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841–1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer)(until d. 1919; Vollard cliché no. 1406); Wildenstein & Co., Inc. (New York)New York; Enid Haupt (American)(until 1983; sold Dec 20 to W. Annenberg ); Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg ; Donor: Mr. and Mrs. Walter H. Annenberg
References

Colin B. Bailey, Joseph J. Rishel, Mark Rosenthal Masterpieces of Impressionism & Post-Impressionism: The Annenberg Collection . Philadelphia, 1989, pp. 38-39,148, ill.

Cara D. Denison, Peter Dreyer The Thaw Collection Master Drawings and New Acquisitions. 1994, p. 121, re: no.

Susan Alyson Stein, Colin B. Bailey, Mark Rosenthal The Annenberg Collection: Masterpeices of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Edited by Asher Ethan Miller, New Edition. New York, 2009, pp. 124-126, cat. no. 24, p. 125 (ill), ill.
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