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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
actual: 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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