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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Jacques Fray
1904
Jacques Fray was about one year old when Renoir painted this portrait. Characteristic of the artist’s late manner, touches of color were applied loosely to the canvas and combine into a softly focused image. The infant is shown clasping a toy bird, while another stands on the table and a third lies overturned beside it. As an adult, Fray became a concert pianist, working with George Gershwin and hosting one of the first classical music series on American radio.
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 5/8 x 13 5/16 in. (42.2 x 33.8 cm)
Frame: 22 7/8 x 19 11/16 x 2 1/8 in. (58.1 x 50 x 5.4 cm)
Object Number
1955.600
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Image Caption
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Fray, 1904, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.600
Select Bibliography
Paris: Musée de l'Orangerie.. Exposition Renoir 1841-1919.. 1933..
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Six: Impressionist Paintings.. Opened Sept. 18, 1956..
Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967.
Taft Museum, Cincinnati.. The Best of Fifty. March 24-May 8, 1977.. 1977..
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
Barnes, Albert C. and Violette de Mazia. The Art of Renoir. New York. 1935.
Michel Florisoone.. Renoir.. Paris.. 1937..
R. H. Wilenski.. Modern French Painters.. New York.. 1940..
Donald, Anne. "Madame X in Glasgow". Scottish Art Review (Glasgow). 1966.
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.
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.
Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992.
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.
Valentine Fray, Paris (d. 1939); Jacques Fray, Paris, her son, by descent (from 1939); [Carroll Carstairs, New York, sold to Durand-Ruel, 1 May 1940]; [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, sold to Clark, 28 May 1940]; Robert Sterling Clark (1940–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
