Signatures, Inscriptions, and Markings Signed (lower right): Renoir
Gallery Label This picture, which is in effect drawn directly with paint, was almost certainly executed out-of-doors about 1870. The site is in the village of Louveciennes, west of Paris, where Renoir's parents had a summer home. Camille Pissarro, who lived and worked in the village in 1869–70, painted a view of the same road (National Gallery, London).
Provenance [Ambroise Vollard, Paris; bought from the artist]; [A. & R. Ball, New York, until 1948; sold to Shaefer]; Lesley and Emma Sheafer, New York (1948–his d. 1956); Emma A. Sheafer, New York (1956–d. 1973)
Exhibition History New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lesley and Emma Sheafer Collection: A Selective Presentation," July 16, 1975–?, no. 33 (as "Family Walking in the Park").
Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum Vincent Van Gogh. "Franse meesters uit het Metropolitan Museum of Art: Realisten en Impressionisten," March 15–May 31, 1987, no. 19 (as "Een weg in Louveciennes").
Fort Lauderdale. Museum of Art. "Corot to Cézanne: 19th Century French Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," December 22, 1992–April 11, 1993, no catalogue.
Paris. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. "Impressionnisme: Les origines, 1859–1869," April 19–August 8, 1994, no. 179 (as "Chemin à Louveciennes [A Road in Louveciennes]").
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Origins of Impressionism," September 27, 1994–January 8, 1995, no. 179.
London. Hayward Gallery. "Landscapes of France: Impressionism and its Rivals," May 18–August 28, 1995, no. 64 (as "Road in Louveciennes").
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Landscapes of France: Impressionism and its Rivals," October 4, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 64.
London. National Gallery. "Renoir Landscapes: 1865–1883," February 21–May 20, 2007, no. 8 (as "Road in Louveciennes").
References "Louveciennes et ses peintres." Louveciennes: Bulletin officiel municipal no. 40 (March 1980), p. 13, ill.in Retrospective Camille Pissarro . Exh. cat., Isetan Museum of Art. [Tokyo], 1984, p. 128, under no. 12.in Franse meesters uit het Metropolitan Museum of Art: Realisten en Impressionisten . Exh. cat., Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, Amsterdam. Zwolle, The Netherlands, 1987, pp. 64–65, no. 19, ill. (color, overall and detail).Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century . New Haven, 1993, p. 184, pl. 174.in Origins of Impressionism . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1994, p. 456, no. 179, ill. (b&w).in Gary Tinterow and Henri Loyrette. Origins of Impressionism . Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1994, pp. 263, 297, 448, no. 179, fig. 325 (color).Landscapes of France: Impressionism and Its Rivals . Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery. London, 1995, pp. 190–93, no. 64, ill. (color, overall and detail).in Renoir Landscapes: 1865–1883 . Exh. cat., National Gallery. London, 2007, pp. 103–5, no. 8, ill. (color).in Renoir Landscapes: 1865–1883 . Exh. cat., National Gallery. London, 2007, p. 108.
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