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    Museum collections / Art Institute of Chicago
    Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso)
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso), c. 1883. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00004785

    Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso)

    by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

    View at the Art Institute of Chicago

    Provenance

    Estate of the artist, from 1919 [artist’s estate stamp (Lugt 2137b), recto, lower right, in brown-black]; sold to André Schoeller: Paris [Justin K. Thannhauser to Carl O. Schniewind, June 5, 1943]. André Schoeller, probably to at least July 27, 1939 [Dealer photograph dated July 27, 1939]. Sold by Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1943.

    Exhibition history

    Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 22, cat. 44 (ill.) (recto) Birmingham (Ala.) Museum of Art, "Exhibition of French Drawings (Le Fin du Siècle)," Oct. 5–Nov. 1, 1952, no cat. (recto) Tokyo, National Art Center, "Renoir: Tradition and Innovation," Jan. 20–Apr. 5, 2010, pp. 96–97 (ill.), cat. 31, 251 (ill.); Osaka, National Museum of Art, Apr. 17–June 27, 2010 (recto).

    Publications

    John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (H. Bittner, 1946), p. 18, no. 26 (ill.) (recto). Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (J. J. Augustin, 1947), pp. 290–91, no. 145 (ill.) (recto). Regina Shoolman and Charles E. Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings in America (Oxford University Press, 1950), p. 202, no. 114 (ill.) (recto). Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time, vol. 3 (Shorewood, 1962), no. 801 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 91, no. 5D8. Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 2, 1882–1894 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2009), p. 476, cat. 1445 (ill.). “Cat. 18: Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman Seated in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso),” 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.

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    Quick Overview

    Artist
    Pierre Auguste Renoir / French, 1841-1919
    Date
    c. 1883
    Medium
    Charcoal, with graphite and touches of stumping and erasure (recto), and graphite (verso) on ivory wove paper
    Dimensions
    36.2 × 31 cm (14 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    charcoal
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Samuel P. Avery Fund
    Accession no.
    1943.520

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