Signed (lower left): Renoir.
Between 1888 and 1892 Renoir painted a number of works in which the same pair of girls—the blonde wearing a white frock and the brunette a pink one—are posed together by a piano, reading, talking in the countryside, or, as here, picking flowers. These intimate genre scenes, which celebrate youthful innocence, found a ready market in the early 1890s. The same models appear in "Two Girls at the Piano" of 1892 (Robert Lehman Collection).
[Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1892; bought from artist on March 14 for Fr 2,000, stock no. 2048; sold on April 29 for Fr 10,000 to Potter Palmer]; Mrs. Berthe Honoré Potter Palmer, Chicago (1892–94; sold on November 23 to Durand-Ruel); [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1894–1906, stock no. 979; sold on February 21 to Emmons]; Arthur B. Emmons, New York and Newport (1906–20; sale, American Art Association, New York, January 14, 1920, no. 46, for $28,000 to Durand-Ruel for Lewisohn); Adolph Lewisohn, New York (1920–38, cat., 1928, p. 136); his son, Samuel A. Lewisohn, New York (1938–51)
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition," May 8–August 1920, unnumbered cat. (p. 10, lent by Adolph Lewisohn).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings," May 18–September 12, 1937, no. 55 (about 1894–95, lent by the Adolph Lewisohn Collection).
New York. Duveen Galleries. "Renoir, Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1841-1941," November 8–December 6, 1941, no. 61 (as "Dans la prairie" [In the Meadow], about 1890, lent by the Lewisohn Collection).
New York. Paul Rosenberg & Co.. "Delacroix and Renoir," February 16–March 13, 1948, no. 19 (as "Dans la Prairie," about 1890, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Sam A. Lewisohn).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Lewisohn Collection," November 2–December 2, 1951, no. 69 (Bequest of Samuel A. Lewisohn to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "Pierre Auguste Renoir," 1955, no. 53 (about 1894–95).
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. "Pierre Auguste Renoir," 1955, no. 53 (about 1894–95).
Tokyo National Museum. "Treasured Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," August 10–October 1, 1972, no. 98.
Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "Treasured Masterpieces of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," October 8–November 26, 1972, no. 98.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Impressionism: A Centenary Exhibition," December 12, 1974–February 10, 1975, not in catalogue (dates it about 1890).
Leningrad [St. Petersburg]. State Hermitage Museum. "100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum," May 22–July 27, 1975, no. 71.
Moscow. State Pushkin Museum. "100 Paintings from the Metropolitan Museum," August 28–November 2, 1975, no. 71.
London. Hayward Gallery. "Renoir," January 30–April 21, 1985, no. 85 (as "Gathering Flowers" [known as "In the Meadow"], about 1890).
Paris. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais. "Renoir," May 14–September 2, 1985, no. 84 (as "La cueillette des fleurs" [known as "Dans la prairie"], about 1890).
Museu de Arte de São Paulo. "Renoir, o pintor da vida," April 22–July 28, 2002, unnumbered cat. (as "Na campina [À la campagne]").
Martigny. Fondation Pierre Gianadda. "The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne," June 23–November 12, 2006, no. 47.
Barcelona. Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya. "Grandes maestros de la pintura europea de The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Nueva York: De El Greco a Cézanne," December 1, 2006–March 4, 2007, no. 39.
Berlin. Neue Nationalgalerie. "Französische Meisterwerke des 19.Jahrhunderts aus dem Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," June 1–October 7, 2007, unnumbered cat.
"French, English, and American Paintings." Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 15 (September 1920), p. 207.
Ambroise Vollard. Renoir, An Intimate Record. New York, 1925, p. 246.
Stephan Bourgeois. The Adolph Lewisohn Collection of Modern French Paintings and Sculptures. New York, 1928, pp. 136–37, ill.
Julius Meier-Graefe. Renoir. Leipzig, 1929, p. 213, no. 210, ill.
Samuel A. Lewisohn. "Drama in Painting." Creative Art 9 (September 1931), p. 195, ill. in color opp. p. 185.
R. H. Wilenski. Modern French Painters. New York, [1940], p. 342.
Renoir, Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1841–1941. Exh. cat., Duveen Galleries. New York, 1941, pp. 83, 155, no. 61, ill.
Preface by Edward Alden Jewell in French Impressionists and Their Contemporaries Represented in American Collections. New York, 1944, ill. p. 78 (color).
John Rewald. The History of Impressionism. [revised edition, 1961]. New York, 1946, ill. opp. p. 408 (color).
Walter Pach. Pierre-Auguste Renoir. New York, 1950, pp. 90–91, ill. (color).
J. Manet Rouart. Letter to H. B. Wehle. February 18, 1952.
Harry B. Wehle. The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures: Figure Paintings by Renoir. 34, Album LF, New York, 1952, unpaginated, ill. (color).
Bruno F. Schneider. Renoir. Berlin, [1957], p. 45, ill. (color).
Hermann Bünemann. Renoir. Ettal, 1959, pp. 95–96, 214, no. 95, ill. (color) [see catalogue cards].
Charles Sterling and Margaretta M. Salinger. "XIX–XX Centuries." French Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 3, New York, 1967, pp. 158–59, ill.
François Daulte. "Figures." Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. 1, Lausanne, 1971, unpaginated, no. 610, ill.
Carl R. Baldwin The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Impressionist Epoch. [New York], 1974, p. 5.
John House in Renoir. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery. [London], 1985, pp. 133, 256–57, no. 85 (b&w and color).
Charles S. Moffett. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1985, pp. 170–71, ill. (color).
Katharine Baetjer in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne. Exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Gianadda. Martigny, 2006, p. 22 [Catalan ed., Barcelona, 2006, p. 19].
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu. Nineteenth-Century European Art. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J., 2006, p. 425, fig. 17-18 (color).
Kathryn Calley Galitz in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Chefs-d'œuvre de la peinture européenne. Exh. cat., Fondation Pierre Gianadda. Martigny, 2006, pp. 242–44, no. 47, ill. p. 243 (color) and on cover (color detail) [Catalan ed., Barcelona, 2006, pp. 132–33, no. 39, ill. (color)].
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