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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Thérèse Berard
1879
Thérèse Berard was the niece of one of Renoir's primary patrons, the diplomat and banker Paul Berard. When the artist made this painting in the late 1870s, he was developing a reputation as a skilled portraitist. The brushwork is delicate and the palette is restrained compared to his more experimental work from this period, perhaps because Renoir acknowledged that with a portrait, “it’s necessary for a mother to recognize her daughter.”
Image Caption
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thérèse Berard, 1879, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.593
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
22 x 18 7/16 in. (55.9 x 46.8 cm)
Frame: 31 5/8 x 28 1/16 in. (80.3 x 71.3 cm)
Object Number
1955.593
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
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Provenance
Édouard Berard, father of the sitter, Paris (from 1879); Thérèse Berard, later Mrs. Albert Thurneyssen, Paris and Wessling (Ger.) (until 1938, sold to Clark, Sept. 1938); Stephen C. Clark, New York (1938–45, sold to Durand-Ruel, 21 Nov. 1945); [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1945–46, sold to Clark, 2 Jan. 1946]; Robert Sterling Clark (1946–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.