A vase of roses on a table covered with white cloth, in front of another draped white cloth.
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Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College

A black shiny vase with a handle holds an overflowing bouquet of roses, they are mostly white and they have many of their leaves still attached. A closter of leaves with one rose has fallen onto the table next to the vase. They bouquet sits on a table which is covered in white cloth, the same color as the backdrop of the image, surrounding the bouquet with the white and blue tones of white drapery.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.276
People
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French (Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cagnes)
Title
Still Life with Roses
Classification
Paintings
Work Type
painting
Date
c. 1866
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/230114

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
74.9 x 55.4 cm (29 1/2 x 21 13/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: l.r.: A Renoir
  • inscription: verso, bottom of frame, impressed: M GRIEVE / HAND CARVED / NEW YORK & LONDON

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Vallier, from father-in-law. [Wildenstein & Company, New York], traded; to Grenville L. Winthrop, 1939, for a Greuze painting, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.276
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Chinese Sculpture, Bronzes, Jades, Paintings and Drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art; selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, exh. cat., Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1943), p. 11
  • Elda Fezzi, L'Opera Completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista, 1869-1883, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1972), p. 116, plate 615, repr. in b/w
  • Edgar Peters Bowron, European Paintings Before 1900 in the Fogg Art Museum: A Summary Catalogue including Paintings in the Busch-Reisinger Museum, Harvard University Art Museums (Cambridge, MA, 1990), p. 127, repr. as no. 377
  • Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir 1858-1881, Editions Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 2007), p. 115, ill. as no. 11

Exhibition History

  • Chinese sculpture, bronzes, jades, paintings and drawings, Egyptian and Persian sculpture, Pre-Columbian art : selected from the collection of Grenville Lindall Winthrop, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/01/1943 - 02/28/1944
  • Master Paintings from the Fogg Collection, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 04/13/1977 - 08/31/1977

Verification Level

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