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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Bather
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Bather, c. 1885. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00002409

    Bather

    by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Pierre Renoir (1885–1952), Paris [According to annotation on permanent receipt R 6178, dated Jan. 25, 1937]. Sold by Valentine Gallery, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 30, 1937.

    Exhibition history

    Chicago, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, "Original Drawings by Masters of the Sixteenth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth Centuries and Artists of the Present Day," Jan. 9–31, 1940, no cat.1120 Exposition Park, Los Angeles County Museum, "Pierre Auguste Renoir: 1841–1919," July 14–Aug. 21, 1955, cat. 103 (ill.); Civic Center, San Francisco Museum of Art, Sept. 1–Oct. 2, 1955. Iowa City, University of Iowa, Art Department, "Drawing and the Human Figure: 1400–1964," 1964, cat. 106.

    Publications

    John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (H. Bittner, 1946), p. 19, no. 29 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (Univesity of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 91, no. 5D10. Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins, et aquarelles, vol. 2, 1884–1892 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2009), p. 541, no. 1569 (ill.). “Cat. 21: Bather,” in Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https://publications.artic.edu/renoir/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/138973.

    Open-access museum data

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Pierre Auguste Renoir / French, 1841-1919
    Date
    c. 1885
    Medium
    Red chalk, with traces of graphite, on cream laid paper
    Dimensions
    42.7 × 31.4 cm (16 13/16 × 12 3/8 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    chalk
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Robert Allerton
    Accession no.
    1937.18

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