Attributed to Pierre-Auguste RENOIR (France/ 1841-1919)
Group of figures and naiad in a landscape (recto); Figures and flowers (verso)
Graphite on laid paper
With stamp 'COLLECTION EDMOND RENOIR Jr - VIROFLAY' (lower right, recto)
22.9 x 30.9 cm; framed 24 x 31.5 cm
Provenance :
- Edmond-Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1884-1981), nephew of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (collection stamp, lower right).
- Private collection.
Related works:
- A drawing by Renoir bearing the same stamp, Edmond Renoir à la pêche, 1868, sold at Christie's, London, February 8, 2001, lot 416A.
- A drawing by Renoir bearing the same stamp, Hector et Paris, 1860, sold at Christie's, New York, May 14, 2019, lot 137.
Edmond Renoir (1884-1981) was the son of Edmond Victor Renoir (1849-1944), himself the brother of the illustrious Impressionist Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Edmond Renoir inherited works, mostly from the Impressionist master's youth, on which the present stamp was affixed, notably the drawings.
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