
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002409Bather
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.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
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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