
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00003082Studies of Trees and Foliage
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris [Tokyo 1979]. Fraysse collection, Paris, by 1938 [Durlacher Brothers, stock card MM129]. Sold by Durlacher Brothers, New York, to Philip Hofer (1898–1984), Cambridge, Mass., Nov. 28, 1938 [Durlacher Brothers stock card MM129]; consigned to Durlacher Brothers, New York, Oct. 1947 [Philip Hofer to Kirk Askew, Sept. 23, 1947; Askew to Hofer, Sept. 20, 1947; and Hofer to Askew, Western Union telegram, Oct. 3 1947]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1948.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galeries Durand-Ruel, "Aquarelles, pastels et dessins par Renoir," Apr. 4–23, 1921, cat. 16.1110 Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Museum, Harvard Art Museums, 1944–1947. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, "Painted Papers: Watercolors from Dürer to the Present," March 15-April 15, 1962, cat. 69. Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 69 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 130-131, cat. 62 (ill.). Tokyo, L'Isetan Museum of Art, "Auguste Renoir," September 22-November 6, 1979; traveled to the Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, November 11-December 9, 1979.
Publications
John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (H. Bittner, 1946), p. 21, no. 50 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 92, no. 5D11. Douglas W. Druick, Renoir, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 1997), pp. 71, 91, 111, no. 18 (ill.). Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 2, 1882–1894 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2009), p. 579, no. 1630 (ill.). “Cat. 20: Studies of Trees and Foliage,” in Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https://publications.artic.edu/renoir/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/138973.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre Auguste Renoir / French, 1841-1919
- Date
- 1884/87
- Medium
- Pen and black ink with opaque and transparent watercolor on ivory wove paper
- Dimensions
- 49.7 × 30.9 cm (19 5/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Potter Palmer
- Accession no.
- 1948.75
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