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Woman with a Parasol and Small Child on a Sunlit Hillside
about 1874–76
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French, 1841–1919
47.0 x 56.2 cm (18 1/2 x 22 1/8 in.)
Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Lower left: RenoirClassification: Paintings
Type, sub-type: Genre - ExteriorObject is currently out on loan Museum of Fine Arts, BostonBequest of John T. Spaulding, 1948
Accession number: 48.593Provenance/Ownership History: Please note: The history of ownership is not definitive or comprehensive, as it is under constant review and revision by MFA curators and researchers.
August 25, 1891, sold by the artist to Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock no. 1541) [see note 1]; transferred from Durand-Ruel, Paris, to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock no. 1845-4935); January 14, 1917, sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to Josef Stransky (b. 1872 - d. 1936), New York; sold by Stransky to Duncan Phillips (b. 1886 - d. 1966), Washington, D.C.; April 30, 1926, sold by Phillips to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock no. 8239); April 27, 1927 (?), sold by Durand-Ruel to John Taylor Spaulding (b. 1870 - d. 1948), Boston [see note 2]; 1948, bequest of John Taylor Spaulding to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 3, 1948)
NOTES:
[1] The provenance given here was provided by Durand-Ruel, Paris in a letter to the MFA (January 4, 1962; in MFA curatorial file); also see François Daulte, "Auguste Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, I. Figures, 1860 - 1890" (Lausanne, 1971), cat. no. 260. [2] In their letter to the MFA (as above, n. 1) Durand-Ruel stated that they purchased the painting from Mr. Phillips on April 30, 1926 and sold it to John Taylor Spaulding in April 1926. Mr. Spaulding's receipt is dated April 27, 1926. Daulte (as above, n. 1) gives Spaulding' s purchase date as April 27, 1927.This object is included in the following Selected Tour(s):
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