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    The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker’s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso)
    Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker’s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso), 1881. The Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain (CC0).

    Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago

    AT-00005072

    The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker’s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso)

    by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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    Provenance

    Possibly Ambroise Vollard (1867–1939), Paris [Art Dealers’ Association of America to B. E. Bensinger, Dec. 30, 1969 and Dauberville and Dauberville, 2007]. Purchased jointly by M. Knoedler and Company, New York, and French Art Galleries, New York, Mar. 7, 1949 [M. Knoedler and Company, stock card WCA1119 and stock book p. 122. M. M. Knoedler and Company Records, circa 1848–1971, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, acc. no. 2012.M.54, box 17]; sold by M. Knoedler and Company, New York, to T. Edward Hanley (1894–1969), Bradford, Pa., May 10, 1949 [M. Knoedler and Company, stock card WCA1119, and stock book p. 122. M. M. Knoedler and Company Records, circa 1848–1971, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, acc. no. 2012.M.54, box 17]; T. Edward Hanley to E. V. Thaw and Company, New York [According to Patti Tang of E. V. Thaw and Company, the drawing passed directly from T. Edward Hanley to E. V. Thaw and Company]; sold to Benjamin E. Bensinger (1905–1976), Chicago, Mar. 9, 1967; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1969.

    Exhibition history

    Philadelphia Museum of Art, "T. Edward Hanley Collection," 1957. Buffalo, N.Y., Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, "The T. Edward Hanley Collection," Jan. 6–Feb. 14, 1960, cat. 110. New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the Hanley Collection," Nov. 22–Dec. 30, 1961, p. 13, cat. 102. Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "T. Edward Hanley Exhibition," Jan. 24–Apr. 15, 1962, cat. 104. New York, Morgan Library and Museum, "Renoir's Drawings", October 17, 2025 - February 8, 2016, traveled to Paris, Musée d'Orsay, March 17 - July 5, 2026, p. 71, cat. 51, cat. by Colin B. Bailey, et. al.

    Publications

    Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 1 (A. Vollard, 1918), p. 10, no. 38 (ill.). Ambroise Vollard, La vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (A. Vollard, 1919), p. 180 (ill.). Walter Pach, Renoir (Abrams, 1950), p. 12 (ill.). Walter Pach, Auguste Renoir: Leben und Werk (M. Dumont Schauberg, 1976), pp. 26–27, no. 18 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 90, no. 5D6. Douglas W. Druick, Renoir, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 1997), pp. 91, no. 10 (ill.), 110. John House, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: La Promenade (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), pp 78–79, fig. 51. Martha Tedeschi, “Pierre Auguste Renoir, Workers’ Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Emile Zola’s ‘L’Assommoir’), 1877/78,” in “Maineri to Miró: The Regenstein Collection since 1975,” special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 80 (ill.). Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, with the collaboration of Camille Frémontier-Murphy, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins, et aquarelles, vol. 1, 1858–1881 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2007), p. 612, no. 658 (ill.). “Cat. 13: The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker’s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir’s “L’étiquette”) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (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
    1881
    Medium
    Black chalk (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper (discolored to tan)
    Dimensions
    49.2 × 31.9 cm (19 3/8 × 12 9/16 in.)
    Type
    Drawing
    Classification
    conté crayon
    Place
    France
    Department
    Prints and Drawings
    Credit line
    Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Bensinger
    Accession no.
    1969.870

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