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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

French, 1841–1919

Thérèse Berard

1879

Thérèse Berard was the niece of one of Renoir's primary patrons, the diplomat and banker Paul Berard. When the artist made this painting in the late 1870s, he was developing a reputation as a skilled portraitist. The brushwork is delicate and the palette is restrained compared to his more experimental work from this period, perhaps because Renoir acknowledged that with a portrait, “it’s necessary for a mother to recognize her daughter.”

Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions 22 x 18 7/16 in. (55.9 x 46.8 cm) Frame: 31 5/8 x 28 1/16 in. (80.3 x 71.3 cm)
Object Number 1955.593
Acquisition Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status On View

Image Caption

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Thérèse Berard, 1879, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.593

Select Bibliography

Néret, Gilles. Renoir: Painter of Happiness 18411919. Cologne: Taschen GmbH, 2001. Conforti, Michael, et al. The Clark Brothers Collect: Impressionist and Early Modern Paintings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven: distributed by Yale University Press, 2006. New York: Duveen Galleries.. Renoir Centennial Loan Exhibition.. Nov. 8-Dec. 6, 1941.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Six: Impressionist Paintings.. Opened Sept. 18, 1956.. Nagoya (Japan): Nagoya City Art Museum.. Renoir Retrospective. Nagoya City Art Museum, Oct. 15-Dec. 11, 1988; Hiroshima Museum of Art, Dec. 17, 1988-Feb. 12, 1989; Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Feb. 18-April 9, 1989. Kern, Steven, et al. A Passion for Renoir: Sterling and Francine Clark Collect, 19161951. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1996 Michel Florisoone.. Renoir.. Paris.. 1937.. Michel Florisoone.. "Renoir et la Famille Charpentier.. L'Amour de l'Art.. Feb. 1938.. Maurice Bérard. Renoir à Wargemont.. Paris: Larose.. 1939. Lane, J. W. "Thirty-three Masterpieces in a Modern Collection." Art News Annual (1939). R. H. Wilenski.. Modern French Painters.. New York.. 1940.. Nicole Vedrès.. Un siècle d'élégance française.. Paris: Ed. de Chêne.. 1943.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Elda Fezzi.. L'opera complete di Renoir, nel periodo impressionista 1869-1883.. Milan: Rizzoli.. 1972.. François Daulte.. Gli Impressionisti: Auguste Renoir.. Milan: Fratelli Fabri.. 1972.. Keith Wheldon.. Renoir and His Art.. London: Hamlyn Group.. 1975.. White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters. New York: Abrams, 1984. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Bruno F. Schneider.. Renoir, rev. ed.. New York: Crown Publishers.. 1984.. Sophie Monneret.. Renoir.. Paris: Editions Chêne.. 1989.. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada. Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age. June 27-Sept. 14, 1997; Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 17, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998; Kimbell Art Museum, Feb. 8-April 26, 1998. (Exh. cat. by Colin Bailey et al.). National Gallery of Canada and Yale University Press, London.. Paul Mitchell and Lynn Roberts.. Frameworks: Form, Function and Ornament in European Portrait Frames. London: Paul Mitchell, Ltd. & Merrell Holberton.. 1996.. Brooke, David S. "The Clarks as Collectors". The Magazine Antiques vol. 62, no. 4 (October 1997): 500503. François Daulte.. Auguste Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint.. Paris: Durand-Ruel.. 1971.. Dumas, Ann and John Collins. Renoir's Women. The Columbus Museum of Art, September 23, 2005- January 15, 2006. London and New York: Merrell. 2005. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012. Ganz, James A. and Richard R. Brettell. Great French Paintings from the Clark: Barbizon through Impressionism. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Skira Rizzoli Publications; Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2011.

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Provenance

Édouard Berard, father of the sitter, Paris (from 1879); Thérèse Berard, later Mrs. Albert Thurneyssen, Paris and Wessling (Ger.) (until 1938, sold to Clark, Sept. 1938); Stephen C. Clark, New York (1938–45, sold to Durand-Ruel, 21 Nov. 1945); [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1945–46, sold to Clark, 2 Jan. 1946]; Robert Sterling Clark (1946–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.

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