Pont Neuf, Paris

Provenance

The artist; (his sale, Paris, 24 March 1875, no. 42); purchased by (Durand-Ruel, Paris); sold to Nicolas Auguste Hazard [1834-1913], Paris; (Hazard sale, Paris, 1 December 1919, no. 206); purchased by Georges Bernheim, Paris; sold 1921 to Ralph M. Coe, Cleveland; on joint account with (Carroll Carstairs, New York) and (M. Knoedler & Co., New York), by 1935;[1] acquired 1936 by Marshall Field [1893-1956], New York;[2] Dr. and Mrs. [née Barbara Field] Robert Boggs, New York; Mr. and Mrs. Peter Benziger [Mrs. Benziger was previously Mrs. Boggs]. (M. Knoedler and Co., London, New York, and Paris); sold December 1966 to Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969]; bequest 1970 to NGA. [1] The painting was lent by Coe to a 1933 exhibition in Philadelphia, per an unnumbered checklist published in _The Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin_ XXIX (December 1933): 19 and also exhibited at Carstairs Gallery, _French Impressionists and After_, December 1935-January 1936, no. 2. A copy of the catalogue in NGA curatorial files is annotated "Marshall Field." [2] The acquisition by a "New York collector" was announced in _Art News_, 28 November 1936, p. 17. This is presumably Marshall Field, who lent the painting to exhibitions between 1937 and 1944.

Pont Neuf, Paris

Renoir, Auguste

1872

Accession Number

1970.17.58

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 75.3 × 93.7 cm (29 5/8 × 36 7/8 in.) | framed: 99.7 × 119.38 × 20.96 cm (39 1/4 × 47 × 8 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection