1951.77: Two Nude Women, Study for the "Great Bathers"

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1951.77

People

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

Title

Two Nude Women, Study for the "Great Bathers"

Classification

Drawings

Work Type

drawing

Date

c. 1884-1887

Culture

French

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/297524

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Red and white chalk on buff wove paper

Dimensions

110.6 x 124.7 cm (43 9/16 x 49 1/8 in.)
frame: 127 x 139.7 x 5.7 cm (50 x 55 x 2 1/4 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• Signed: Signed, lower right, red chalk: Renoir
• label: verso, upper right, printed and word processor text: [printed:] PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART / [word processor:] "Renoir's Large Bathers" / September 9 -- November 25, 1990 / [printed:] Owner [word processor:] Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum / [printed:] Loan No. [word processor:] 327-1990-003 / [printed:] Artist / Title [word processor:] TWO NUDE WOMEN, STUDY FOR THE "LARGE BATHERS"
• inscription: verso, blue crayon: CA2776 [Knoedler number]
• label: verso, upper center, blue with white text: DORURE ENCADREMENTS / HAVARD Frères / [cut off] 3, Boul. MONTPARNASSE / TELEPH: DAM TC [cut off] 65-60 [cut off]
• label: verso, upper center, printed and typewritten text: [printed:] MINNEAPOLIS ART / INSTITUTE / No. [typewritten:] L58.317 / [printed:] Lent by [typewritten:] Fogg / Art Museum
• label: verso, upper center, printed and typewritten text: [printed:] PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART / PARKWAY AT 26TH STREET, PHILADELPHIA 30 / ARTIST [typewritten:] RENOIR / [printed:] TITLE [typewritten:] The Bathers, 1883 / [printed:] EXHIBITION [typewritten:] The Maurice Wertheim Collection / 7-1957-21 / [printed:] LENDER [typewritten:] Mrs. Maurice Wertheim / [printed:] ADDRESS OF LENDER [typewritten:] 43 East 70th Street, New York City / [illegible; part of label obstructed]
• inscription: verso, right side of frame, white chalk: 11243

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Madame Abel Desjardin, Paris. [Cesar de Hauke], sold [through Knoedler & Co., New York]; to Maurice Wertheim, 1947, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1951

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest from the Collection of Maurice Wertheim, Class of 1906

Accession Year

1951

Object Number

1951.77

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Julius Meier-Graefe, Renoir, Klinkhardt & Biermann (Leipzig, Germany, 1929), repr. p. 191 as fig. 177
• Renoir, 1841-1919, exh. cat., Musée de l'Orangerie (Paris, France, 1933), no. 132
• John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, NY, 1946), repr. as pl. 42
• La Peinture Française Depuis 1870: Collection Maurice Wertheim, exh. cat., Tom Taylor (Québec, Canada, 1949), pp. 75-76, repr. p. 76 as fig. 29
• Graham Reynolds, Nineteenth-Century Drawings, 1850-1900, Pleiades (London, 1949), p. 22, repr. as plate 10
• Walter Pach, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Harry N. Abrams (1950, 1950), p. 19, repr.
• Howard Devree, "By French Masters: The Metropolitan Shows Wertheim Collection", The New York Times (New York, NY, July 6 1952), p. 6, p. 6
• S. Lane Faison, Jr., Great Paintings of the Nude, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1953), p. 16, repr.
• Paul J. Sachs, Modern Prints and Drawings, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (New York, NY, 1954), pl. 27
• Howard Devree, "By French Masters: Memorable Loan Show in Philadelphia", The New York Times (New York, NY, July 7 1957), p. 70, p. 70
• François Mathey, Les Impressionnistes et leur temps, Fernand Hazan (Paris, 1959), p. 134, repr.
• Sam Hunter, Modern French Painting, 1855-1956, Dell (New York, 1960), repr. as pl. 13
• Robert F. Reiff, Renoir, McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York, 1968), pp. 23-25, repr. as fig. 11
• The Maurice Wertheim Collection, brochure, Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 1970), checklist no. 30
• Elda Fezzi, L'Opera Completa di Renoir nel periodo impressionista, 1869-1883, Rizzoli Editore (Milan, Italy, 1972), p. 117, no. 630 J, repr.
• Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing [2nd ed.], Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, 1977), repr. as fig. 2.20
• Barbara Ehrlich White, Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, NY, 1984), p. 167, repr.
• Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, 1984), p. 38, repr. as fig. 2.23
• Charles F. Stuckey, William Scott, and Suzanne G. Lindsay, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, exh. cat., Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, and Hudson Hills Press (New York, 1987), pp. 114, 119, repr. p. 119 as fig. 73
• John O'Brian, Degas to Matisse: the Maurice Wertheim Collection, Harry N. Abrams, Inc. and Fogg Art Museum (New York, NY and Cambridge, MA, 1988), no. 9, pp.61-63, repr. p. 62
• Sophie Monneret, Renoir, Profils de l'Art, Chene (1989), p. 108, repr. as fig. 2
• 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. 24, 26, 28, repr. p. 26 as fig. 27
• George T.M. Shackelford, [Review] "Philadelphia: Renoir's 'Great Bathers'", Burlington Magazine (London, December 1990), vol. 132, no. 1053, p. 900, fig.108
• Nathan Goldstein, The Art of Responsive Drawing, Prentice-Hall Press (Englewood Cliffs, 1992), p. 40, repr. as fig. 2.30
• Anne Distel, Renoir il faut embellir, Réunion des Musées Nationaux / Editions Gallimard (Paris, France, 1993), p. 157, repr.
• Kenneth Maxwell, A Sexual Odyssey: From Forbidden Fruit to Cybersex, Plenum Press (New York and London, 1996), p. 8, repr.
• Gilles Néret, Renoir: Painter of Happiness, 1841-1919, Taschen (Cologne, 2001), repr. pp. 310-11
• Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir 1858-1881, Editions Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 2007), vol. 2, no. 1567, repr.
• Christopher Lloyd, Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum (Milwaukee, WI, 2011), p. 50, repr. p. 50 as fig. 16
• Elizabeth M. Rudy, "Researching the Wertheim Collection at the Harvard Art Museums", Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archives Professionals (Summer 2014), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp. 301-6
• Jennifer A. Thompson, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: Highlights from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art and Yale University Press (New Haven, 2019), pp. 115-116, repr. p. 116 as fig. 48
• Esther Bell and George T.M. Shackelford, ed., Renoir: The Body, The Senses, exh. cat., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Kimbell Art Museum, and Yale University Press (Williamstown, 2019), pp. 44-45, 63, 237, cat. no. 28, repr.

Exhibition History

• Renoir, Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, 01/01/1933 - 12/31/1933
• French Paintings Since 1870 from the Maurice Wertheim Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 06/01/1953 - 09/30/1953
• The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 06/15/1957 - 09/15/1957
• The Maurice Wertheim Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, 06/10/1958 - 08/31/1958
• The Maurice Wertheim Collection: Modern French Art--Monet to Picasso, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, 06/17/1960 - 09/04/1960
• Renoir: the Great Bathers, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 09/09/1990 - 11/25/1990
• 32Q: 1220 Wertheim, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 02/13/2015
• Renoir: The Body, The Senses, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, 06/08/2019 - 09/22/2019

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