Renoir Catalogue Raisonné

 

 

Impressionism, a historical reconstruction:

Auguste Renoir

(1841-1919)

Catalogue Raisonné

of his paintings

 

Introduction:
On this page you will find an overview of the catalogues raisonné of Auguste Renoir.
The problem with many paintings of Renoir is that they are not dated and also that the various serious catalogues render various datings.
The problem is that the catalogues raisonné of Daulte (1971=1CR) and Dauberville (2007-2014=2CR) are rare and very expensive and therefore not generally accessible. The catalogues raisonné of Daulte (1971) and the online CR of the Widenstein Plattner Institute (=WPI=iR179) or (still) limited and don’t cover all the paintings. The same applies to the editions of Fezzi (1972=1F +1985=2F) that focus on the period 1869-1883.
Most catalogues render a chronological overview. Dauberville and the WPI render a thematical overview. I will do the same.
Variations in dating will be noted. The works will be noted in this order: 1F (=Fezzi 1972 =R193), 2F (=Fezzi 1985 =R190), 1CR (=Daulte, 1971 =R), 2CR (=Dauberville 2007-2014 =R185), WPI (the online CR of the Widenstein Plattner Institute =iR179), MG (=Meier-Graefe), GR (-Georges Rivière 1921), V (=Vollard 1925). Next I will refer to other catalogue in order of the first publication date.
This page will limit (mainly) to the paintings of Renoir. So the overview of important catalogues at the bottom of this page, for catalogues dealing with other art-works.
Note: this page has just been started and will be extended in the future.

 

Landscapes:
Note: when possible the landscapes will be indicated by location.
Note: when figures are more prominent the will be catagorised as ‘figures in a landscape’.
Note: (probably) absent in Daulte (1871).
Note: extra attention will be given to the catalogue ‘Landscapes 1865-1883’ (=R460)

1860-1868:
Fontainebleau: 1F9=2F9=2CR60 (1865ca); 1F10=2F10=2CR73 (1865ca); 1F11=2F11=2CR78=R31,no5 (1866)
Paris: 1F19=2F19 (1867ca); 1F27=2F27=2CR111 (1868ca); 1F28=2F28=2CR110=V (1868);

1869:
La Grenouillère: 1F29=2F29=2CR114=V19 (1868-69);

 

 

1884-1894:
Figures in a landscape: 1F600=2F570 (1884, Aline); 1F601=2F571 (1884, Aline); 1F626=2F588 (1886-87); 1F627=2F589=MG (1885-87ca);
Landscapes: 1F624=2F- (1886ca?);
Argenteuil: 1F607=F573 (1884-85ca);

 

1895-1902:
Figures in a landscape:
Landscapes:

 

1903-1910:
Figures in a landscape:
Landscapes:

 

1911-1919:
Figures in a landscape:
Landscapes:

 

 

deviant years:
Figures in a landscape:
Landscapes: 1F603 (1884ca); =2F-=2CR106 (1880ca); 1F604 (1884ca)=2F304 (1878ca)=2CR65; 1F606 (1885ca?)=2F644 (1895-1900ca);

 

 

 

Figure paintings:
Note: figure paintings will be devided in portraits, 1 figure (including têtes), 2 figures, group (of figures), nudes.

1860-1868:
portraits:
1F1=2F1 (1860ca?); 1F5=2F5 (Laporte; 1864ca); 1F6=2F6=1CR11=R31,no2 (William Sisley=S1865); 1F7=2F7=1CR12=R31,no1 (Romaine Lacaux, 1864); 1F15=2F15 (1866, Catherine le Coeur); 1F18=2F18=1CR28=R31,no6; (1867, Bazille; =2IE-1876-244); 1F24=2F24=2CR525=MG (1868ca? Sisley; R31,p189)
1 figure:
1F13=2F13 (1866ca); 1F16=2F16 (1866; compare S1866-R); 1F21=2F21=1CR32=2CR284 (1867ca); 1F22=2F22=1CR22=MG=V (1867; S1868-2113; R31,p181); 1F22a (1867ca; R142,p5); 1F23=2F23 (1866-68ca); 1F26=2F26 (1868; clown);
2 figures:
1F25=2F25=1CR34=MG=V=R31,no9 (1868ca);
group:
1F2=2F2 (1861); 1F4=2F4 (1861ca; copy Rubens); 1F14=2F14=1CR20=MG=V=R31,no4 (1866 Marlotte);
nudes:
1F3=2F3 (1861ca); 1F20=2F20=1CR30=2CR578=MG=V (1867; S1867-R); 1F30=2F30=MG=V (1868-69ca);

 

 

 

1884-1894:
portraits: 1F599=2F569 (1884ca, Lucie Bérard); 1F617=2F579 (1885, Marie Goujon); 1F618=2F580=1CR471=R31,no76 (1885, Etienne Goujon);
1 figure: 1F623=2F585 (1886); 1F628=2F590 (1884-87ca, Suzanne Valadon);
2 figures: 1F621=2F583=1CR485=MG=R31,no79 (1886ca, Aline+Pierre);
group: 1F602=2F572=1CR457=MG (1884; Wargenmont); 1F622=2F584 (1886ca, Aline +Pierre, Britanny);
nudes: 1F619=2F=1CR492=R31,no75 (1885); 1F620=2F=1CR490=R31,no72 (1885ca?); 1F625=2F587 (1886ca); 1F629=2F591 (1887ca); 1F630=2F292=MG (1884-87); 1F632=2F595 (1887ca); 1F642=2F605 (1887ca);

 

1895-1902:
portraits:
1 figure:
2 figures:
group:
nudes:

 

1903-1910:
portraits:
1 figure:
2 figures:
group:
nudes:

 

1911-1919:
portraits:
1 figure:
2 figures:
group:
nudes:

 

 

 

Still lifes:
Note: flowers will be mentioned seperatedly.
Note: (probably) absent in Daulte (1871).
Note: untill now the only rendering of the WPI (=iR179).

1860-1868:
flowers: 1F8=2F8=2CR20=R31,no3a (1864); 1F8a=2F8a=2CR19=R31,no3 (1864); 1F12=2F12=2CR21 (1866);
still-lifes: 1F17=2F17=2CR49 (1866ca);

 

 

1884-1894:
flowers: 1F608=2F574(verso) (1884-85ca?); 1F609=2F- (1885ca?); 1F610=2F575=2CR706 (1884-85ca?); 1F611=2F576 (1885ca?); 1F-=2F577 (1885ca); 1F614=2F578=2CR711 (1885ca); 1F648=2F611=R31,no83 (1889);
still-lifes: 1F616=2F- (1885ca?);

 

1895-1902:
flowers:
still-lifes:

 

1903-1910:
flowers:
still-lifes:

 

1911-1919:
flowers:
still-lifes:

 

 

deviant years:
flowers: 1F615 (1885)=2F31=2CR11 (1868ca); 1F612 (1885ca?)=2F649(1895ca)=2CR04436; 1F613(1885ca?)=2F321(1878ca); 2F615(1885?)=2F31(1868ca)=2CR11(1866ca);
still-lifes: 1F311(1877sic)=2F586(1887);

 

 

 

Other techniques:
Note: not rendered in Fezzi (1985), nor Daulte (1971). Some are rendered in Fezzi (1872)

 

1858-1881:

 

1882-1894:
drawing: 1F621a=1CR496 (1885, Aline+Pierre); 1F626a (1886-87ca); 1F627a (1885-87ca; published 1932); 1F630a-l (1884-85; studies); 1F631a (1887; study);

 

1895-1902:

 

1903-1910:

 

1911-1919:
sculpture: 1F621b=2F- (1913ca?, Aline+Pierre)

 

 

 

Overview important catalogues:
Here below I render some important catalogues on Auguste Renoir.
Note: several I haven’t consulted yet. Several I have to study more thoroughly.

  • Julius Meier-Graefe: Auguste Renoir. Munich 1911, Paris 1912 and Leipzig 1929.
    Biography with 100 pictures, listed, but not numbered.
    PDF second edition Munich, 1920: archive.org/dn79007//Meier-Graefe (=iR19=aR14=MG)
    Note: for further reading.
  • Ambroise Vollard: Tableaux, pastels & dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir; 2 volumes. Paris, 1918.
    Reprinted as: Renoir, Paris 1920 (and in 1938).
    Compare: A. Vollard: Pierre-Auguste Renoir; paintings, pastels and drawings (1918). San Francisco, 1989.
    Note: for further reading.
  • Ambroise Vollard: La vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Paris, 1919.
    A biography with many drawings and 51 prints (after paintings).
    See online PDF: archive.org/dn790009 (=iR19=aR19)
    Compare English edition: New York, 1925 (=V).
    The drawings are missing. In the appendix II (p.235-248) his works are chronologically listed; this is absent in the French edition.
    See oline PDF: archive.org/dn720005 (=iR19=aR17)
    Note: for further reading.
  • Georges Rivière: Renoir et ses amis. Paris, 1921 (=GR=R82=R150).
    Includes many pictures.
    See PDF: ia601500.us.archive.org (=iR19; iR6)
  • Loys Delteil: Le peintre-graveur illustré (XIXe + XXe siècles). Tome 17; Paris, 1923 (=D=R138T17;aR23);
    Online version: gallica.bnf.fr//bpt6k6527654r?rk (=iR40)
    Delteil shows 55 engravings: 25 etchings (1-25), lithographs (26-36), original lithographs (owned by Vollard) (37-48), other lithographs (49+50), engravings after drawings (51-55).
  • François Daulte: Pierre-Auguste Renoir: aquarelles, pastels et dessins en couleurs. Basel, 1958.
    Note: for further reading.
  • Elda Fezzi: L’Opera completa di Renoir nel perioda impressionista 1869-1883 (1972 =1F=R193=R30);
    Rendering all the known paintings made between 1869-1883 and important paintings from the periods 1860-68 and 1884-1919.
    Note: sometimes this catalogue is dated 1968.
    WikiMedia renders the pictures of Fezzi 1972 (iR6; iR6 with several options)
    Note: I use the catalogue of Dony / Braun which has the same numbering as Fezzi 1968 (1976 =R30);
    this Dutch edition refers to the 1972 edition published by Rizzoli Editore, Milano.
  • François Daulte: Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, I, figures 1860-1890. Lausanne, 1971 (=1CR=1D=R108);
    Note: this seems a quite limited edition.
    Note: I have only indirect information.
  • Elda Fezzi & Jacqueline Henry: Tout l’oeuvre peint de Renoir: période impressionniste 1869-1883 (1985 =2F=R190): rendering 733 paintings
    Note: this catalogue refers to an earlier edition made in 1972 and published by Rizzoli Editore, Milano.
    French edition of the earlier publication with additional paintings, sometimes another dating and another numbering
    Rendering all the known paintings made between 1869-1883 and the principal paintings from the periods 1860-68 and 1884-1919.
    WikiMedia renders the pictures of Fezzi 1985 (iR6).
  • Sophie Monneret: Renoir. (1980 =R525);
    Note: I use the English translation of 1990, showing 105 works of Renoir.
  • Barbara Ehrlich White: Renoir; his life, art and letters. New York, 1984. (=R430)
    Note: I use the 1988 edition.
    391 illustrations; 125 in colour;
  • Michael Raeburn (ed.), John House, Anne Distel & Lawrence Gowing (1985=R31);
    exhibition catalogue; showing 127 exhibited paintings and many more.
    Also referred to as House 1985 (R460,p285).
  • Colin B. Bailey, Linda Nochlin, Anne Distel et al.: Renoir’s portraits: Impressions of an age; exhibition catalogue. 1997.
    Showing 69 colour and 326 black/white plates.
    Online publication at archive.org (iR19); note: you have to log in and borrow.
    Note: for further reading.
  • Colin Bailey, John House, Christopher Riopelle, John Zarobell and others: Renoir Landscapes 1865-1883 (2007 =R460)
    exhibition catalogue; showing 73 landscapes;
  • Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville: Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles (2007-2014 =2CR=2D=R185)
    volume 1: 1858-1881
    volume 2: 1882-1894
    volume 3: 1895-1902
    volume 4: 1903-1910
    volume 5: 1911-1919 + supplement no.04436-04517;
  • Online catalogue raisonné (in progress): digitalprojects.wpi.art/renoir/artworks (iR179)
    by the Widenstein Plattner Institute (=WPI=iR179)
    showing the still lifes of Renoir.
  • See also another overview of his pictures on WikiPedia (iR3).

 

For more sources see at the bottom of the main page on Auguste Renoir.
For other general references (=R) see. For other references to internet sites (=iR) see. For other additional references (=aR) see below. See links for practical hints and abbreviations and for the subscription of the paintings.

 

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