Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00009291The Apple Seller
About the Artwork
This painting depicts a young country girl offering apples to Renoir's wife, Aline. The boy in the straw hat may be the artist's nephew, Edmond, but the young girl with the ribbon in her hair has not been identified. Bathed in soft, dappled sunlight, the figures are united through the fluid brushstrokes that cover the canvas. The leaping dog provides an accent of humor and motion in an otherwise tranquil scene. The picture was probably completed at Essoyes, in eastern France.
Inscriptions
Signed center right: a. renoir / 1864
Provenance
1891: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, November 9, 1891, stock no. 1915, purchased from the artist) 1891-1896: (Durand-Ruel, Paris, France, June 12, 1896, sold to Graf von Kessler) 1896-: Graf von Kessler [1868-1937], Berlin, Germany Marquis de Biron [1859-1939], Geneva, Switzerland 1937-1941: (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, NY, February 5, 1941, sold to Leonard C. Hanna Jr.) 1941-1958: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. [1889-1957], Cleveland, OH, bequeathed to the Cleveland Museum of Art 1958-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Color: Light to Palette. Taft Museum of Art, Cincinnati, OH (organizer) (October 22-December 6, 1965). A loan exhibition for the benefit of The American Association of Museums : in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of Renoir’s death. Wildenstein & Co. (March 27-May 3, 1969). Renoir. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 3-April 1, 1973). Renoir Retrospective. Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (organizer) (October 15-December 11, 1988); Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima City, Japan (December 17, 1988-February 12, 1989); Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Nara, Japan (February 18-April 9, 1989). Rise and Fall of Modernity: Weimar- a German Example 1890-1990. Kunstsammlungen zu Weimar, Weimar, Thüringen, Germany (May 9-August 1, 1999). Renoir: 1870 - 1892. Artizon Museum, Tokyo, Japan (February 10-April 15, 2001); Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan (organizer) (April 21-June 24, 2001). CMA Highlights. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 21-September 11, 2005). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009). Renoir - Tradition and Innovation. National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan (January 20-April 5, 2010); National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan (April 17-June 27, 2010).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
- Date
- c. 1890
- Medium
- oil on fabric
- Dimensions
- Framed: 93 x 82.2 x 9.5 cm (36 5/8 x 32 3/8 x 3 3/4 in.); Unframed: 65.8 x 54.5 cm (25 7/8 x 21 7/16 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1958.47
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