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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Study for "Scene from Wagner's Tannhäuser, Third Act"
1879
Image Caption
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Study for "Scene from Wagner's Tannhäuser, Third Act", 1879, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.608
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
21 9/16 x 25 7/8 in. (54.8 x 65.7 cm)
Frame: 30 3/8 x 34 13/16 x 2 13/16 in. (77.2 x 88.4 x 7.1 cm)
Object Number
1955.608
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
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Vollard, Ambroise. Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 2 vols.. Paris: A. C. Mazo. 1918 (rprt. Paris, 1954).. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Six: Impressionist Paintings.. Opened Sept. 18, 1956.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. François Daulte.. Auguste Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint.. Paris: Durand-Ruel.. 1971.. Elda Fezzi.. L'opera complete di Renoir, nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883.. Milan: Rizzoli.. 1972.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Dale G. Cleaver and John Eddins.. Art and Music: An Introduction.. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich.. 1977.. . Renoir. Great Masters of Modern Art. 9. Tokyo: Kodansha. 1979. Kimio Nakayama.. Nu feminin dans l'art, vol. I: Mythologie: Venus.. Tokyo: Zauho Press.. 1980.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Kern, Steven, et al. A Passion for Renoir: Sterling and Francine Clark Collect, 19161951. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1996 Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Possibly Émile Blanche, Paris and Dieppe; Eugène Blot, Paris; [Knoedler, New York, sold to Clark, 5 Apr. 1950]; Robert Sterling Clark (1950–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.