1943.907: Mother and Child

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1943.907

People

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

Title

Mother and Child

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

19th-20th century

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297419

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red and white chalk on cream antique laid paper

Dimensions

sheet: 47.9 × 34 cm (18 7/8 × 13 3/8 in.)
mat: 67.9 × 53 cm (26 3/4 × 20 7/8 in.)
frame: 73.5 × 58.6 × 2.7 cm (28 15/16 × 23 1/16 × 1 1/16 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Signed, lower right, red chalk: Renoir
• watermark: J. A. in double oval

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

[Scott & Fowles, New York, January 5, 1926, sold;] to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

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

Accession Year

1943

Object Number

1943.907

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, NY, 1946), p. 20, pl. 47
• Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 805, n.p., repr.
• Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
• Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir 1858-1881, Editions Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 2007), vol. 2, no. 1581, repr.

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