
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00004785Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso)
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.
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. 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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