1943.908: The Meeting

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.908

People

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French (Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cagnes)

Title

The Meeting

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

1883

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/293701

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Black ink and black chalk on white wove paper

Dimensions

actual: 44.8 x 29.1 cm (17 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Signed, lower left, brown ink: Renoir

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Scott & Fowles, New York, April 1924, sold;] to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes:
1. On the verso of a photograph of this drawing in its object file is written in pencil: “Property of Paul Rosenberg, Mar. 1929.” The meaning of this notation is unclear.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.908

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• La Vie Moderne, December 8, 1883, illustration for Paul Lhote's short story "Un ideal"
• Charles Léger, "Renoir Illustrateur", L'Art Vivant (Paris, January 1933), no. 168, p. 9, repr.
• John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, NY, 1946), repr. p. 18 as pl. 19
• Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir 1858-1881, Editions Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 2007), vol. 2, no. 1589, repr.

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