Pierre Auguste Renoir French (1841-1919) The Daughters of Durand-Ruel, 1882 Oil on canvas Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. in memory of Thelma Chrysler Foy European Art Location:  Exhibit, Gallery 274 View Location Dimensions:  H: 32 in, W: 25 3/4 in, FH: 42 7/8 in, FW: 36 3/4 in Object ID: 71.518 Click for more information: Description Exhibitions Publications Provenance Inscription Listen to Audio Commentary Courtesy of Acoustiguide Corporation Other Views Description This is an oil on canvas painting. A double portrait of the two daughters of Jean-Marie-Fortuné Durand and his wife Marie Ruel, owners of a famous art gallery in Paris. Jeanne, the younger girl with her hat off, and Marie-Therese are posed on a garden bench dressed in light-colored summer frocks. close Exhibitions "Renoir," Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1-25, 1883. "Renoir," Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, May 1892. "Tableaux de Renoir, Monet, Pissarro et Sisley," Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, April 1899. "Renoir," Galerie Paul Cassirer, Berlin, Feb. - March 1912. "Portraits par Renoir," Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 5 - 20, 1912. "Renoir," Galerie Thannhauser, Munich, Germany, Jan. 19 - Feb. 13, 1913. "Französische Kunst des XIX. und XX. Jahrhunderts," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Oct. 5 - Nov. 14, 1917. "Renoir," Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, Nov. 29 - Dec. 18, 1920. "Renoir," Wildenstein Gallery, New York, March 23 - April 29, 1950. "Masterpieces from Museums and Private Collections," Wildenstein Gallery, New York, Nov. 8 - Dec. 15, 1951. "Art Treasures Exhibition," Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. 1955, No. 359. "Renoir," Wildenstein Gallery, New York, April 8 - May 10, 1958. "French Paintings 1789-1929 from the Collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Dayton Art Institute, March 25 - May 22, 1960. (Exhib. cat. no. 63). "The Controversial Century 1850-1950," Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Massachusetts, and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 1962. "Four Masters of Impressionism," Acquavella Galleries, New York, Oct. 24 - Nov. 30, 1968, cat. no. 32. "The Past Rediscovered: French Painting 1800-1900," Minneapolis Institute of Arts, July 3 - Sept. 7, 1969, cat. no. 72. "Renoir," Wildenstein Gallery, New York, March 27 - May 3, 1969. "Faces from the World of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism," Wildenstein Gallery, New York, Nov. 2 - Dec. 9, 1972. "Paintings by Renoir," Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 3 - April 1, 1973. "Treasures from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.," Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, June 12 - Sept. 5, 1977. (Exhib. cat. no. 41). "Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk," for the benefit of The Chrysler Museum Art Reference Library, Wildenstein & Co., New York, N. Y., April 13 - May 13, 1978. (Exhib. cat. no. 24). "French Paintings from The Chrysler Museum," North Carolina Museum of Art, May 31 - Sept. 14, 1986; Birmingham Museum of Art, Nov. 6, 1986 - Jan. 18, 1987. (Exhib. cat. no. 38). "Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age," National Gallery of Canada, June 27 - September 14, 1997; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 14, 1997 - January 4, 1998; Kimbell Art Museum, February 8 - April 26, 1998. (Exhib. cat. no. 44). "In the Open Air: Impressionism and Its Influences," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, March 25 - June 5, 2005. close Publications Ambroise Vollard, Renoir: an intimate record (New York: A.A. Knopf, 1934). "Renoir," loan exhib. cat., Wildenstein Gallery, New York, 1951, no. 41. "Loan Exhibition Renoir," exhib. cat., Wildenstein Gallery, New York City, Ny., 1958, 54, no. 40. Sales Catalogue No. 1905, Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., May 15-16, 1959, p. 39. "New York Times," May 14, 1959. "New York Herald Tribune," May 14, 1959. Priscilla C. Colt and Charles H. Elam, French Paintings 1789-1929 from the collection of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., exh. cat, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Oh., 1960, no. 63. Charles F. Comfort and William S.A. Dale, The Controversial Century: 1850-1950, exh. cat., Chrysler Art Museum of Provincetown, Provincetown, Ma., 1962, not paged. Eric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya, Treasures from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk and Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., exh. cat., Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, Tn., 1977, no. 41. Eric M. Zafran and Mario Amaya, Veronese to Franz Kline: Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum at Norfolk, exh. cat., Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1978, no. 24. The Chrysler Museum: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Norfolk, Virginia (Norfolk: Chrysler Museum, 1982), 63. ISBN: 0-940744-37-6 Click to view availability at the Jean Outland Chrysler Library Thomas E. Norton, foreword by Douglas Dillon, 100 Years of Collecting in America: The Story of Sotheby Parke Bernet (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1984), 171. ISBN: 0810922916, 0810916150 Click to view availability at the Jean Outland Chrysler Library Barbara Ehrlich White, Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984), 128-129. ISBN: 0810915553 Click to view availability at the Jean Outland Chrysler Library Jefferson C. Harrison, French Paintings from The Chrysler Museum, exh. cat., The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Va., 1986, no. 38. ISBN: 0-940744-54-6 Click to view availability at the Jean Outland Chrysler Library Laura C. Lieberman, "Select Offerings: French Paintings From The Chrysler Museum," Southern Accents 9, no. 6 (November 1986): 46-50. Jefferson C. Harrison, The Chrysler Museum Handbook of the European and American Collections: Selected Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings (Norfolk: The Chrysler Museum, 1991), 142-143, no. 113. ISBN: 0-940744-59-7, 0-940744-62-7 Click to view availability at the Jean Outland Chrysler Library Colin B. Bailey, Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age, exh. cat., National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 1997, 190-197, 202. Christie's London, Impressionist & Nineteenth Century Art, auction cat., Tuesday, June 29, 1999, London, England, p. 36. John House and Sona Johnston, Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections (New York: Rizzoli International Publications, Inc., 1999), 156. Barbara Dayer Gallati, "William Merritt Chase and the French Connection," The Magazine Antiques CLVIII, no. 1 (July 2000): 74-83. Gilles Néret, Renoir: Painter of Happiness (Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2001), 206. Professor Takao Okamura, "Renoir" (Special Edition) Shukan Bijutsukan [The Weekly Museum] (January 30, 2001): 37. close Provenance Paul Durand-Ruel, Paris, from 1882 Mme André-Felix Aude, Paris Wildenstein and Co., New York, 1944 Mrs. Byron C. Foy, New York Foy sale, Parke-Bernet, New York, May 13, 15-16, 1959 Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., to the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, 1971. close Inscriptions Signed and dated lower right: Renoir '82 close Pierre Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919 The Daughters of Durand-Ruel, 1882 Oil on canvas, 32" x 25ž" Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., in Memory of Thelma Chrysler Foy, 71.518   museum@chrysler.org Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia All Rights Reserved ©2006