La Fête de Pan 1879

by Pierre-August Renoir (French, 1841-1919)

Medium	Oil
Medium Detail	Oil on canvas
Dimensions	24 1/2 x 29 inches
Signed Location	Lower right
Date Created	1879
Provenance	The Artist Paul Berard, Paris, 1905 Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, March 8, 1905, no. 17 Alfred Berard, Paris, 1905 Alfred Daber, Paris Knoedler and Company, Paris Robert Nahman, Paris Sotheby and Company, London, Vente de tableaux, March 26, 1958, no. 157 Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, Valuable Modern Paintings, Drawings, and Sculptures from Various Owners, December 5, 1962, page 90, no. 93, illustrated in color on opposite page. Arthur Murray, by descent to present owner.
Literature	Berard, M. Renoir at Wargemont, Paris, 1938, p.13. Drucker, Michael. Renoir, 1944, pp. 13, 185. Barnes, Alfred C. and Violette de Mazia, The Art of Renoir, Merion, Pennsylvania: The Barnes Foundation, 1935, recorded p. 451, no. 96. Berard, M. “Un Diplomate, Ami de Renoir,” in Revue d’Histoire diplomatique, Paris, July-September, 1956, p.8, no.3 Daulte, Francois. Auguste Renoir: Catalogue Raisonne de l’oeuvre peint, Volume I, Figures (1860-1890), Lausanne: Editions Durand-Ruel, 1971, no. 314, illustrated on opposite page. Daulte, Francois. Renoir, New York: Doubleday & Company, (in collaboration with the Wildenstein Foundation, Paris) 1973, p. 89, no. 16, illustrated.