Nude Woman, Study for the "Great Bathers" | Harvard Art Museums

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Identification and Creation

Object Number: 1959.131
People: Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French (Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cagnes)
Title: Nude Woman, Study for the "Great Bathers"
Other Titles: Alternate Title: Bather (Study for the "Great Bathers")
Classification: Drawings
Work Type: drawing
Date: c. 1884-1887
Culture: French
Persistent Link: https://hvrd.art/o/296825

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Graphite on off-white wove paper

Dimensions

31.1 x 20.2 cm (12 1/4 x 7 15/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

inscription: lower center, graphite: ouverture 28 x 18,5
inscription: lower right, graphite: 32 [encircled]
inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: JR
inscription: verso, lower right, graphite: 6y6/12-

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History: [Ambroise Vollard, Paris (?)]. André Derain, Chambourcy, France (?-1955), sold; [through Galerie Charpentier, Paris, March 22, 1955, lot 10]; to John Rewald, New York, NY (1955-1959), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1959.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line: Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. John Rewald
Accession Year: 1959
Object Number: 1959.131
Division: European and American Art
Contact: am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

Konrad Oberhuber, European Master Drawings of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, exh. cat., National Museum of Western Art (Tokyo, 1979), cat. no. 90, n.p., pl. 90, repr.
Christopher Riopelle, "Renoir: the Great Bathers", Bulletin of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art (Philadelphia, PA, Fall 1990), vol. 86, no. 367-368, pp. 17-19, repr. p. 19 as fig. 17
Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir 1858-1881, Editions Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 2007), vol. 2, no. 1521, repr.

Exhibition History

European Master Drawing of Six Centuries from the Collection of the Fogg Art Museum, National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 11/03/1979 - 12/16/1979
Renoir: the Great Bathers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 09/09/1990 - 11/25/1990

Verification Level

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