Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait d'Edmond Maître

Property from an Esteemed Private Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
1841-1919

Portrait d'Edmond Maître
signed A. Renoir (center left)
oil on canvas
8 ⅝ by 11 ½ in.
22 by 29.2 cm.
Executed in 1871.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.

Provenance:
Louis-Edmond Maître, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Paul-Arthur Chéramy, Paris

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 April 1913, lot 59 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Dikran K. Kélékian, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

The American Art Association, New York, 30-31 January 1922, lot 98 (consigned by the above)

Charles R. Sheeler, New York (acquired at the above sale)

Agnes Meyer, Mt. Kisco, New York and Washington, D.C.

Katherine Graham, Washington, D.C. (acquired by descent from the above)

Sotheby’s, New York, November 5, 2002, lot 1 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner