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Mixed Flowers in an Earthenware Pot

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919)
about 1869

Medium/Technique Oil on paperboard mounted on canvas
Dimensions 64.8 x 54.3 cm (25 1/2 x 21 3/8 in.)
Credit Line Bequest of John T. Spaulding
Accession Number48.592
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On display at National Gallery of Art, Washington, September 8, 2024 – January 20, 2025
CollectionsEurope
ClassificationsPaintings
In this rustic arrangement of dahlias, asters, and sunflowers, Renoir applied paint in two different ways, conveying the delicacy of petals with short, wet strokes and the solidity of the earthenware pot and burnished pears with broader, smoother brushwork. The picture marks Renoir’s closest collaboration with Monet; the young artists painted the same still life, sitting side by side before the arrangement. Monet’s version of the composition is now in the J. Paul Getty Museum.

InscriptionsLower right: Renoir
Provenance1891, M. Duze; May 14, 1891, sold by Duze to Durand-Ruel, Paris; March 30, 1897, transferred from Durand-Ruel, Paris, to Durand-Ruel, New York; January 6, 1925, sold by Durand-Ruel, New York, to John Taylor Spaulding (b. 1870 - d. 1948), Boston; 1948, bequest of John Taylor Spaulding to the MFA. (Accession Date: June 3, 1948)