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The Green Jardinière

Artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir French, 1841-1919

Date1882

DimensionsPainting: 36 1/2 × 26 3/4 in. (92.7 × 67.9 cm)
Frame: 46 1/2 × 37 1/4 × 3 3/4 in. (118.1 × 94.6 × 9.5 cm)

MediumOil on canvas

ClassificationPaintings

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libbey

Object number

1933.174

Not on View

Published ReferencesMeier-Graefe, J., Renoir, Leipzig, 1929, p. 18, pl. 152.

Art News, XXXII, February 3, 1934, p. 14, repr.

Art Digest, XIII, February 15, 1934, p. 12, repr.

Toledo Museum News, no. 71, June 1935, repr.

Godwin, Blake-More, European Paintings in the Toledo Museum, 1939, p. 226, repr. p. 227.

Wittmann, Otto, "L'Art Francaise au Musée de Toledo," Connaissance, no. 125, July 1962, Paris, pp. 40-47, repr. p. 45, appendix p. 111.

Gaunt, W. Renoir, New York, 1962, p. 78, no. 27, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, A Guide to the Collections, Toledo, 1966, repr.

Sutton, Denys, "Nineteenth-Century Painting: Trends and Cross-Currents," Apollo, vol. 86, no. 70, Dec. 1967, p. 492, repr. (b&w) fig. 22.

Sutton, Denys, "Pleasures for the Aesthete," Apollo, vol. 90, no. 91, September 1969, p. 238.

Lee, Katharine C., "French Impressionism and Post-Impressionism," Toledo Museum News, vol. 12, no. 3, Autumn 1969, repr. p. 76, detail repr. p. 76 above.

Daulte, F., Auguste Renoir, catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, vol. I: Figures, 1860-1890, Lausanne, 1971, no. 412, repr.

Fezzi, E., L'opera completa di Renoir del periodo impressioniste, 1869-1883, Milan, 1972, no. 535, repr. (as 1882).

Fahy, E., in The Wrightsman Collection, Vol. V: Paintings, Drawings, Sculpture, New York, 1973, pp. 191-193, repr.

Toledo Museum of Art, The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pp. 135, 136, pl. 254.

Ravin, James G., "Art and Medicine: Renoir," Bulletin, The Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, vol. 71, no. 5, Nov.-Dec., 1980, repr. cover.

Sotheby's, New York, Impressionist and Modern Paintings and Sculpture, Part I (sale 6018), May 17, 1990, cat. entry no. 33.

Dauberville, Guy-Patrice and Michel, Renoir: catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 2, 1882-1894, Paris, Editions Bernheim-Jeune, 2009, no. 1120, p. 276, repr.

Solana, Guillermo, Renoir: Intimacy, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2016, cat. no. 32, p.122, repr. (col.) p. 123.

Eiling, Dr. Alexander, Renoir Rococo Revival, Berlin, Hatje Cantz, 2022, cat no. 101, p.288, repr. (col.).

Exhibition HistoryNew York, Durand-Ruel, Paintings by Modern French Masters, 1920, no. 19.

The Toledo Museum of Art, Portraits and Portraiture Throughout the Ages, 1937, no. 37.

San Francisco Gold Gate International Exposition, Masterworks of Five Centuries, 1939, no. 158 (repr. in cat.).

San Diego Museum of Fine Arts, 1939.

New York, Duveen, Renoir, 1941, no. 46, repr. p. 68.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1944, p. 43, repr.

The Toldo Museum of Art and the Art Gallery of Toronto, Two Cities Collect, 1948, no. 26, repr.

New York, Wildenstein, Loan Exhibition of Renoir, 1950, no. 37, repr. p. 54.

London, Tate Gallery; San Francisco Museum of Art, Renoir, September-October 1953, no. 16, pl. IV.

Royal Academy of Scotland, Edinburgh International Festival, August-September 1953, no. 16, repr. pl. IV.

Los Angeles County Museum, Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919: Paintings, Drawings, Prints and Sculpture, 1955, no. 26, repr. p. 50.

New York, Wildenstein, One Hundred Years of Impressionism: A Tribute to Paul Durand-Ruel, 1970, no. 50, repr.

Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, 1973, no. 42, repr.

Memphis, The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Degas and His Friends, 1986, no. 34, repr. p. 20 (col.) and 56.

Nagoya City Art Museum, Renoir Retrospective, 1988, no. 26, pp. 86, 241, repr. (col.).

Nara Prefectural Museum of Art, Nara, Japan. 1988-89.

Mexico City, Museo del Palacio de Bella Artes, Masters of Impressionism [Maestros del impresionismo], 1998-1999, p. 152, repr. (col.).

Columbus (OH) Museum of Art, Renoir's Women, September 23, 2005 - January 8, 2006, p. 26, 32, fig. 16, p. 27. (Shown with Bather, 1955.87)

Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, , October 18, 2016 - May 15, 2017.

Frankfurt am Main, Stadel Museum, Renoir: Rococo Revival, March 2 - June 19, 2022.

Label TextLike his landscape Road at Wargemont (also in the Museum’s collection), Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Green Jardinière features jewel-like tones and fluid brushwork. The young woman who sits opposite the large planter of the title, the strap of her dress provocatively slipping off her shoulder, is Aline Charigot (1859–1915). She was a seamstress who frequently modeled for Renoir. They began to live together in 1882, the same year Renoir painted this portrait, and eventually married in 1890. Renoir made another version of the painting, which differs in the size of the figure and the addition of a cat. Made around the time that Renoir had achieved enough success with his portraits to be free of earlier financial worries, it nonetheless contains an element of thriftiness: he recycled the canvas, painting this image over a still life by another, unknown, artist.