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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 14, 2019 | Christie's | New York | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 38A | $****** - ****** | Le pêcheur à la ligne |
paintings
54 x 65.1 cm (21.25 x 25.63 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'Renoir.' (lower right)
The artist; sale, Maître C. Pillet, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 24 March 1875, lot 48.
Georges Charpentier, Paris (acquired at the above sale); Estate sale, Maître P. Chevalier, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11 April 1907, lot 22.
Raymond Elois Tournon, Paris (acquired at the above sale).
Georgette Tournon-Charpentier, Paris (by descent from the above and then by descent); Estate sale, Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 6 July 1971, lot 30.
Mr. and Mrs. Nigel Broackes, London (acquired at the above sale); sale, Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 4 July 1979, lot 78.
Acquired at the above sale by the familly of the present owner.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Auguste Renoir, January-February 1900, no. 18.
Paris, Galerie Paul Rosenberg, Le grand siècle, June-July 1936, no. 46 (dated 1879).
Paris, Galerie Alfred Daber, Rétrospective des Maîtres du XIXe siècle, June 1942.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, La vie familiale: Scènes et portraits, February 1944, no. 120 (illustrated).
London, Christie, Manson & Woods International Inc., Fanfare for Europe: The British Art Market, January, 1973, p. 15, no. 73.
London, Royal Academy of Arts, Impressionism: Its Masters, its Precursors, and its Influence in Britain, February-April 1974, p. 48, no. 98 (illustrated, p. 78, pl. XVIIIa).
J. Meier-Graefe, Auguste Renoir, Paris, 1912, p. 53.
L. Rebatet, "Une admirable galerie en vingt toiles des maîtres du XIXe siècle" in Le Petit Parisien, 10 June 1942, p. 2.
M. Drucker, Renoir, Paris, 1944, pp. 128, 151 and 184 (illustrated in color, pl. 45; dated 1877).
M. Robida, Le salon Charpentier et les impressionnistes, Paris, 1958, pp. 45-46 (illustrated, p. 40, pl. VIII; dated 1875).
F. Fosca, Renoir. His life and Work, Englewood Cliffs, 1962, p. 88 (titled The Angler).
M. Bodelsen, "Early Impressionist Sales 1874-94 in the Light of Some Unpublished 'Procès-Verbaux’" in The Burlington Magazine, June 1968, vol. 110, no. 783, p. 335, no. 48.
F. Daulte, Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, figures, 1860-1890, Lausanne, 1971, vol. I, no. 103 (illustrated).
F. Daulte, Renoir, New York, 1973, p. 76 (illustrated).
K. Wheldon, Renoir and His Art, New York, 1975, p. 68 (illustrated in color, pl. 48).
W. Gaunt, Renoir, Oxford, 1982, no. 18 (illustrated in color; titled The Angler).
B.E. White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, New York, 1984, p. 54 (illustrated).
E. Fezzi and J. Henri, Tout l’œuvre peint de Renoir: Période impressionniste 1869-1883, Paris, 1985, no. 138 (illustrated; illustrated again in color, pl. XIV).
N. Wadley, Renoir: A Retrospective, London, 1987, p. 97 (illustrated in color, pl. 33).
A. Distel, Impressionism: The First Collectors, New York, 1990, p. 143 (titled Fisherman).
G. Néret, Renoir: Painter of Happiness, New York, 2001, p. 81 (illustrated in color).
G. P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1858-1881, Paris, 2007, p. 313, no. 263 (illustrated).
signed 'Renoir.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
21 ¼ x 25 5/8 in. (54.1 x 65.2 cm.)
Painted in 1874
