Keywords: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French - The Grands Boulevards - Google Art Project.jpg Limoges France 1841 Cagnes-sur-Mer France 1919 Renoir Male 809040 Pierre-Auguste French 1841 - 1919 /collection/philadelphia-museum-of-art/artwork/the-grands-boulevards-pierre-auguste-renoir-french-1841-1919/804034/ 82739 Pierre-Auguste Renoir French 1841 - 1919 Artist/Maker /artist/auguste-renoir/4129013/ 4129013 /collection/philadelphia-museum-of-art/ Philadelphia Museum of Art 817003 http //www philamuseum org/ 2/7/2012 4 59 11 PM /collection/philadelphia-museum-of-art/artwork/the-grands-boulevards-pierre-auguste-renoir-french-1841-1919/804034/ 1875 1875 Oil on canvas Probably with Durand-Ruel Paris 1; Armand-François-Paul des Frisches comte Doria 1824-1896 Paris; sale Doria collection Galerie Georges Petit Paris May 4-5 1899 no 208; purchased by Durand-Ruel Paris 2 Collection Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune Paris 3 Oscar Schmitz 1861-1933 Dresden 1900-1933 on loan to the Kunsthaus Zürich 1931- 4; Schmitz estate 1933-1936; with Wildenstein Co Paris 1936-1937 5; sold to Henry P McIlhenny Philadelphia by February 1937 6; bequest to PMA 1986 1 Count Armand Doria purchased three paintings by Renoir from Durand-Ruel Renoir's dealer in July 1876 possibly including this one he owned ten by the time of his death See Anne Distel Les collectionneurs des impressionistes Paris 1989 p 171 2 Per annotation in PMA copy of sale catalogue 3 See Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville Renoir catalogue raisonné des tableaux pastels dessins et aquarelles vol 1 1858-1881 Paris 2007 no 186 4 La Collection Oscar Schmitz Paris Wildenstein Co 1936 no 51 and H Biedermann Die Sammlungen Adolf Rothermundt und Oscar Schmitz in Dresden in Die Moderne und ihre Sammler Berlin 2001 p 213 Schmitz probably purchased the painting from Paul Durand-Ruel his friend and art advisor Schmitz loaned most of his collection including the French works to the Kunsthaus Zürich when he lived temporarily in Switzerland beginning in 1931 Biedermann p 221 5 See catalogue La Collection Oscar Schmitz Paris Wildenstein Co 1936 no 51 Georges Wildenstein purchased 62 of the French works from the Schmitz collection in 1936 see Biedermann p 233 n 46; and Daniel Wildenstein and Yves Stavridès Marchands d'art Paris 1999 p 87 6 McIlhenny mentions the recent acquisition of the painting in a letter to Paul Rosenberg dated February 2 1937 curatorial file 521 21 804034 False 1875 Overall 3/24/2012 10 12 54 AM 1986-26-29 http //www philamuseum org/collections/permanent/82739 html http //www philamuseum org/copyright html Philadelphia Museum of Art The Henry P McIlhenny Collection in memory of Frances P McIlhenny 1986 painting 1870 1880 Country France Made in w635 x h521 in 1875 False 1 22781774580336 © 2011 Philadelphia Museum of Art All rights reserved Object the-grands-boulevards-pierre-auguste-renoir-french-1841-1919 The Grands Boulevards g 635 51 Oil on canvas Probably with Durand-Ruel Paris 1; Armand-François-Paul des Frisches comte Doria 1824-1896 Paris; sale Doria collection Galerie Georges Petit Paris May 4-5 1899 no 208; purchased by Durand-Ruel Paris 2 Collection Josse and Gaston Bernheim-Jeune Paris 3 Oscar Schmitz 1861-1933 Dresden 1900-1933 on loan to the Kunsthaus Zürich 1931- 4; Schmitz estate 1933-1936; with Wildenstein Co Paris 1936-1937 5; sold to Henry P McIlhenny Philadelphia by February 1937 6; bequest to PMA 1986 1 Count Armand Doria purchased three paintings by Renoir from Durand-Ruel Renoir's dealer in July 1876 possibly including this one he owned ten by the time of his death See Anne Distel Les collectionneurs des impressionistes Paris 1989 p 171 2 Per annotation in PMA copy of sale catalogue 3 See Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville Renoir catalogue raisonné des tableaux pastels dessins et aquarelles vol 1 1858-1881 Paris 2007 no 186 4 La Collection Oscar Schmitz Paris Wildenstein Co 1936 no 51 and H Biedermann Die Sammlungen Adolf Rothermundt und Oscar Schmitz in Dresden in Die Moderne und ihre Sammler Berlin 2001 p 213 Schmitz probably purchased the painting from Paul Durand-Ruel his friend and art advisor Schmitz loaned most of his collection including the French works to the Kunsthaus Zürich when he lived temporarily in Switzerland beginning in 1931 Biedermann p 221 5 See catalogue La Collection Oscar Schmitz Paris Wildenstein Co 1936 no 51 Georges Wildenstein purchased 62 of the French works from the Schmitz collection in 1936 see Biedermann p 233 n 46; and Daniel Wildenstein and Yves Stavridès Marchands d'art Paris 1999 p 87 6 McIlhenny mentions the recent acquisition of the painting in a letter to Paul Rosenberg dated February 2 1937 curatorial file special url_id 4wG2eCbsYVb6bg 1919 Google Art Project works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir French paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art |