The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of April 23, 2024

Peasant Girl with Dog

Peasant Girl with Dog

c. 1894
(French, 1841–1919)
France, 19th century
red chalk
Sheet: 31 x 24.1 cm (12 3/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
John L. Severance Fund 1949.551
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The art historian John Rewald supposedly called this work "one of the two or three most beautiful Renoir drawings in America."

Description

During the last decades of his career, Renoir worked prolifically in red chalk, which was used to develop a loose and sketchy style. In this drawing, the artist attempted to recapture the spontaneity that characterized Impressionist art a few decades earlier. By showing a young girl seated resting peacefully alongside a bale of hay, he idealized rural French life.
  • by 1920-after 1929
    Max Silberberg, Breslau
    1929-?
    (possibly Paul Cassirer, Berlin)
    ?-1949
    (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH)
    1949-
    Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • Vollard, Ambroise. La vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris: Vollard, 1919. Reproduced: frontispiece
    Meier-Graefe, Julius. Auguste Renoir. Munich: R. Piper & Co., 1920. Reproduced: p. 139
    Meier-Graefe, Julius. Renoir. Leipzig: Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1929. Mentioned: p. 443, no. 238; Reproduced: pl. 238
    Ein Jahrhundert Französischer Zeichnung. Exh. Cat. Berlin: Paul Cassirer, 1929. Mentioned: p. 80, no. 93
    "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums, April - June 1953." Art Quarterly 16 (Winter 1953). Mentioned: p. 353
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 607 archive.org
    Renoir, Degas: A Loan Exhibition of Drawings, Pastels, Sculptures. Exh. Cat. New York: Charles E. Slatkin Galleries, 1958. Mentioned: no. 62; Reproduced: pl. XLII
    Nineteenth Century Master Drawings. Exh. Cat. Newark: Newark Museum, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: no. 46
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 177 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. 177 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 219 archive.org
    Pharisien, Bernard. Renoir de vigne en vin à Essoyes. Bar-sur-Aube: Nemont, 2012. Reproduced: p. 23
    Guillaume, Lamia. Un autre Renoir. Exh. Cat. Troyes: Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Troyes, 2017. Reproduced: p. 60
  • Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in Nineteenth-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013).
    French Drawings from the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (December 13, 1994-March 12, 1995).
    Directions in Drawing: 1750-1988. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 2-August 4, 1991).
    The Impressionist Aesthetic. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 10-October 31, 1982).
    Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 11-October 21, 1968).
    French Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 16, 1965-February 16, 1966).
    19th and 20th Century Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 19-March 24, 1965).
    Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).
    19th Century Master Drawings. Newark Museum, Newark, NJ (organizer) (March 16-April 30, 1961).
    Nineteenth Century Master Drawings. Newark Museum (March 16 - April 30, 1961).
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    Ein Jahrhundert Französischer Zeichnung. Paul Cassirer, Berlin (December 1929 - January 1930).
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