The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 24, 2024

Romaine Lacaux

Romaine Lacaux

1864
(French, 1841–1919)
Framed: 106.7 x 89.2 x 8.9 cm (42 x 35 1/8 x 3 1/2 in.); Unframed: 81.3 x 65 cm (32 x 25 9/16 in.)

Did You Know?

The son of a poor tailor from Limoges, Renoir began his artistic career at age 13 as an apprentice to a porcelain painter.

Description

This painting may be Renoir's earliest signed canvas. Its sensitive display of color and light communicates an ideal of delicate, youthful beauty. The luminous tones of the background drapery and of the child's white blouse result from the artist's careful observation of reflected light and color on translucent materials. The delicate nuances of color, particularly in the young girl's face, reveal Renoir's previous training as a decorator of porcelain. He painted this portrait, commissioned by the vacationing Lacaux family, during his stay at an artist's colony in the village of Barbizon, near Paris.
  • Lacaux family, Paris, France
    Edmond Decap, Paris, France, by descent to Mme. Maruice Barret-Decap
    -1929
    Mme. Maurice Barret-Decap, Paris, France
    1929-1941
    (Drouot, Paris, France, December 12, 1929, lot 12, Barret-Decap Sale, sold to Roger Berheim)
    by 1941
    (Roger Bernheim, Paris, France, sold to Jacques Seligmann & Co.,)
    1941-1942
    (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, NY, December 2, 1941, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
    1942-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Revue de l'Art Ancien et Moderne 751 (September/October 1928): cover. Reproduced: cover
    Hotel Drouot. "Auction. December 12, 1929." ARTnews 28, no. 7 (16 November, 1929): 11. Reproduced: p. 11
    Hotel Drouot. "Auction. December 12, 1929." ARTnews 28, no. 8 (23 November, 1929): 11. Reproduced: p. 11
    Imbourg, Pierre. "The B . . . D . . .Collection." Formes; An International Art Review 1 (December 1929): 20-21. Mentioned: p. 20-21; reproduced: opp. p. 18
    Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain). Commemorative Catalogue of the Exhibition of French Art, 1200-1900. London, UK: Oxford University Press, H. Milford, 1933. Reproduced: p. 109, no.479
    "Noel 1933." L'Illustration: Journal Universel (1933): 49. Reproduced: p.49
    Barnes, Albert C., and Violette De Mazia. The Art of Renoir. New York, NY: Minton, Balch & Co, 1935. Reproduced: p. 255
    Florisoone, Michel, Frederic Lees, and André Gloeckner. Renoir. New York, NY: French and European Publications, Inc, 1938. Reproduced: p. 26
    Wilenski, R. H. Modern French Painters. New York, NY: Reynal & Hitchcock, 1940. Reproduced: p. 339
    Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Celebrating Renoir's Centenary: A Bright Galaxy." ARTnews 40 (15-30 November 1941): 16-21. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 16-21.
    Francis, Henry S. "Melle Romaine Lacaux by Renoir." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art XXX, no. 6 (June, 1943): 92-98. Reproduced: p. 86
    Richardson, E. P. "Mlle. Romaine Lacaux by Renoir." The Art Quarterly 6, no. 2 (Spring 1943): 150, 156. Mentioned: p. 156; reproduced: p. 150
    Davidson, Alfred. "Cleveland Buys Goya and Renoir Portraits." Art Digest 17, no. 17 (1 June 1943): 7. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 7
    "Renoir and Goya Meet in Cleveland." ARTnews 42, no. 8 (June/July 1943): 35. Mentioned and reproduced: p.35
    ARTnews 42, no. 17 (15-31 January 1944): cover. Reproduced: cover
    Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. Reproduced: p. 36 archive.org
    Vaudoyer, Jean-Louis. Les impressionnistes de Manet à Cézanne. Paris, FR: Nouvelles éditions françaises, 1948. Reproduced: p. 50
    Zahar, Marcel. Renoir. New York, NY: Authentic Publications, 1948. Figs. 1, 3
    ARTnews Annual 1948. New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc, 1948. Reproduced: p. 75
    Paul Rosenberg & Co. Loan Exhibition of 21 Masterpieces by 7 Great Masters ... for the Benefit of the Public Education Association, November 15th to December 18th, 1948. New York, N.Y.: P. Rosenberg & Co, 1948. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 4
    Pictures on Exhibit 11, no. 3 (December 1948): cover. Reproduced: cover
    Catalogue de reproductions en couleurs de la peinture de 1860 à ... = Catalogue of colour reproductions of painting from 1860 to ... = Catálogo de reproducciones en color de la pintura de 1860 a. Paris, FR: Unesco, 1949. Reproduced: p. 297
    ARTnews Annual 1948-1949. New York, N.Y.: Newsweek, Inc, 1949. Reproduced: p. 188
    Pach, Walter. Pierre Auguste Renoir. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1950. Reproduced: p. 32-33
    Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York, NY: Scribner, 1950. Reproduced: p. 93, fig. 92
    Wildenstein and Company (New York, N.Y.), and Daniel Wildenstein. A Loan Exhibition of Renoir for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, March 23-April 29, 1950 at Wildenstein. 1950. Mentioned: cat. no. 1, Reproduced: frontispiece
    Towndrow, Kenneth Romney. “French Painters.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 55 (February 1952): 43–48. Reproduced: p. 45
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 501 archive.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 72
    Encyclopedia of World Art. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959. Mentioned: vol. 12, p. 162
    Seligman, Germain. Merchants of Art: 1880-1960; Eighty Years of Professional Collecting. New York, NY: Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1962. Reproduced: pl. 93
    Rostrup, Haavard. "Studier I Fransk Portraetmaleri: Renoir og Bonnard." Meddelelser fra Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 20 (1963): 1-24. Mentioned: p. 8; reproduced: p. 3
    Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. Reproduced: cat. no. 88.
    Stechow, Wolfgang. "A Symposium Honoring Professor Wolfgang Stechow : Youthful Works by Great Artists." Bulletin / Allen Memorial Art Museum / Allen Memorial Art Museum20.1963, 77-220 : Ill. ; 8 (1963). Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 24
    Henning, Edward B. "From Turner to Guston." Apollo: A Journal of the Arts 78 (December 1963): 184-488. Reproduced: p. 484
    Lambourne, Nigel. Renoir: Paintings, Drawings, Lithographs, and Etchings. London, UK: Folio Society, 1965. Reproduced: pl. 2
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 173 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 173 archive.org
    Cabanne, Pierre. Renoir. [Paris]: Réalités-Hachette, 1970. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 46-47
    Daulte, François. Auguste Renoir: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Lausanne: Durand-Ruel, 1971. Reproduced: p. 33, vol. 1 no. 12
    Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista, 1869-1883. Milano: Rizzoli, 1972. Reproduced: p. 89, fig. 7
    Daulte, François. Auguste Renoir. Milano, IT: Fratelli Fabbri Editori, 1972. Reproduced: p. 74, fig. 1864
    Champa, Kermit Swiler. Studies in Early Impressionism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1973. Reproduced: p. 49, pl. 16, mentioned: p. 34-38
    Renoir, Auguste, and John Maxon. Paintings by Renoir. [Chicago]: Art Institute of Chicago, 1973.
    Kuroe, Mitsuhiko. Renoir. Tokyo, Japan: Shincho-sha, 1974. Reproduced: no. 1
    Wheldon, Keith, and Auguste Renoir. Renoir and His Art. London, UK: Hamlyn, 1975. Reproduced: p. 12, pl. 4
    Pach, Walter. Auguste Renoir: Leben und Werk. Köln, Germany: Verlag M. DuMont Schauberg, 1976. Reproduced: p. 61, pl. 1
    De Mazia, Violette. "E Pluribus Unum--Cont'd: Part IV." Journal of the Art Department 8, no. 2 (Autumn 1977): 3-42. Mentioned: p. 5; reproduced: pl.4
    Callen, Anthea. Renoir. London, UK: Oresko Books,1978. Reproduced: p. 7, fig. 1
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 215 archive.org
    Moulin, Jean-Marie. "The Art of the Second Empire." The Magazine Antiques 114, no. 4 (October 1978): 776-783. Reproduced: p. 777
    Galeries nationales du Grand Palais (France), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Detroit Institute of Arts, and Réunion des musées nationaux (France). L'Art en France sous le Second Empire: [exposition], Grand Palais, 11 mai-13 août 1979. Paris: La Réunion, 1979. Mentioned: cat. no. VI, Reproduced: p. 348-9
    Harris, Nathaniel. A Treasury of Impressionism. London, UK: Optimum, 1979.
    Renoir: Hayward Gallery, London, UK, January 30 - April 21, 1985, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, FR, May 14 - September 2, 1985, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. October 9 -January 5, 1986. Paris, FR: Réunion des musées nationaux, 1985. Referenced: cat. no. 1, p. 182, Reproduced: p. 37, 182
    Renoir, Auguste. Renoir: Hayward Gallery, London, 30 January-21 April 1985, Galeries Nationales Du Grand Palais, Paris, 14 May-2 September 1985, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 9 October 1985-5 January 1986. [London]: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 1, 37,182
    Tinterow, Gary, and Henri Loyrette. Origins of Impressionism. 1994. Reproduced: p. 254-255
    Drucker, Michel. Renoir. Paris, FR: P. Tisné, 1944. Reproduced: p. 25, pl. 2
    Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age (Exhibition), Auguste Renoir, Colin B. Bailey, John Bruce Collins, Linda Nochlin, and Anne Distel. Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 3, p. 21-23, 94-96, 268
    Johnston, Sona. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. New York, NY : Rizzoli, 1999. Reproduced: p. 145, cat. no. 53
    Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 526-529, Vol. II, no. 184
    Joannides, Paul. Renoir: sa vie, son oeuvre. Courbevoie, FR: Soline, 2000. Reproduced: p. 19
    Sekai bijutsukan no tabi. Tōkyō, Japan: Shōgakukan, 2002. Reproduced: p. 310
    Tinterow, Gary, Geneviève Lacambre, and Deborah L. Roldán. Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003. Reproduced: p. 516, fig. 1.64, p. 64
    Pach, Walter, and Auguste Renoir. Pierre Auguste Renoir. New York, NY: Harry N. Abrams, Publishers, 2003. Reproduced: p. 48-49
    Fahy, Everett, Elizabeth E. Barker, and Jayne Wrightsman. The Wrightsman pictures. New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2005. Reproduced: p. 181
    Dumas, Ann, and John Bruce Collins. Renoir's Women. London, UK: Merrell, 2005. Reproduced: p. 41, fig. 26
    Burgess, Margaret B., "Side by Side", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 45 no. 05, May/June 2005 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 9 archive.org
    Kagawa, Kyōko. Runowāru. Tōkyō, Japan: Shōgakukan, 2006. Reproduced: p. 74
    Dauberville, Guy-Patrice, Michel Dauberville, and Camille Frémontier-Murphy. Renoir: catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles. Paris, FR: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 2007. Reproduced: p. 485, fig. 489
    "Off the Walls." Fine Art Connoisseur 5, no. 5 (September/October 2008):67-71. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 71
    Thomas, Greg M. Impressionist Children: Childhood, Family, and Modern Identity in French Art. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2010. Reproduced: p. 9, fig. 10
    Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 289
    "Auf der Such nach dem Museumparkplatz." Weltkunst. 154 (march 2019): 68 Reproduced: p. 68
    Arendsee, M., and M. Steinman-Arendsee. "Take the CAN disability aesthetics tour, at the Cleveland Museum of art." CAN Journal (Winter 2019/20): 76-87. Reproduced: p. 82
    Robinson, William H. “Portrait of Renoir.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine 61, no. 4 (Fall 2021): 28. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 28
  • Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (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's Women. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH (organizer) (September 23, 2005-January 15, 2006).
    Masterworks from The Phillips Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 20-May 29, 2005).
    Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (February 25-June 29, 2003).
    Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. The Baltimore Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 1999-January 30, 2000); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (March 25-May 7, 2000); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 28-July 30, 2000).
    Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age. National Gallery of Canada (organizer) (June 27-September 14, 1997); The Art Institute of Chicago (October 17, 1997-January 4, 1998); Kimbell Art Museum (February 8-April 26, 1998).
    Les Origines de l'Impressionnisme. Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (April 19-August 8, 1994); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (September 19, 1994-January 8, 1995).
    Object Lessons: Cleveland Creates an Art Museum. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 7-September 8, 1991).
    Renoir. Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (January 30-April 21, 1985); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (May 14-September 2, 1985); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA (October 9, 1985-January 5, 1986).
    L'Art en France Sours Le Second Empire (Art in France Under the Second Empire). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organizer) (October 1-November 26, 1978); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (January 28-March 18, 1979); Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, 75008 Paris, France (May 11-August 13, 1979).
    Renoir. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (organizer) (February 3-April 1, 1973).
    Exposition de la jeunesse vue par les maîtres français et étrangers du XVIe au XIXe siècle. Paris, Hôtel Jean Charpentier, Paris, France (1928.
    French Art 1200-1900. London, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom (1932).
    Exposition Renoir 1841-1919. Paris, Musée de L'Orangerie, Paris, France (1933).
    Centennial Loan Exhibition 1841-1941: Renoir. Duveen Galleries, New York, NY (1941).
    Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
    Youthful Works by Great Artists. Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (organizer) (March 10-30, 1963).
    In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958).
    35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951).
    A Loan Exhibition of Renoir for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary. Wildenstein & Co. (organizer) (March 22-April 29, 1950).
    Twenty-one Masterpieces by Seven Great Masters. Paul Rosenberg & Co. (organizer) (November 15-December 1, 1948).
    19th and 20th Century French Art and Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Loans. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 1, 1943).
  • {{cite web|title=Romaine Lacaux|url=false|author=Pierre-Auguste Renoir|year=1864|access-date=24 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1942.1065