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AT-00005933Bathers in a Forest
Inscriptions
Signed recto, lower right, in graphite: Renoir; inscribed recto, lower right, in graphite: 100 x 67
Provenance
Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Jan. 31, 1966 [Sold for the benefit of L’Union Catholique du Theater et de la Musique, at a private auction, according to Paris, 1985]. Galerie Robert Schmit, Paris, by 1985 [Paris, 1985]. Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris, by April 1985 [Paris, 1985]. Grob Gallery, London, by September 1990 [frame labels]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Dec. 3, 1991, lot 28, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Dessins et aquarelles de Renoir, Apr. 25–June 30, 1985, cat. 17; traveled to Monte Carlo, Galerie Artis, July 18–Sept. 14. Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Renoir: The Great Bathers," Sept. 3–Nov. 25, 1990, no cat. The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection," June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 148, cat. 103 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, "The Thrill of the Chase: Drawings for the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection", March 15 - June 15, 2014. New York, Morgan Library and Museum, "Renoir's Drawings", October 17, 2025 - February 8, 2026, p. 203, cat. 174, cat. by Colin B. Bailey, et. al.
Publications
Ambroise Vollard, La vie et l’oeuvre de Pierre Auguste Renoir (L’auteur, 1919), p. 271 (ill.). Paul Haesaerts, Renoir: Sculptor (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947), pp. 11 (detail ill.), 20 (detail ill.). François Daulte, Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonné de l’oeuvre peint, vol. 1 (Durand-Ruel, 1971), p. 18 (ill.). Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Dessins et aquarelles de Renoir, exh. cat. (Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, 1985). Françoise Daulte, “Renoir dessinateur et aquarelliste,” L’oeil 358 (May 1985), p. 64 (ill.). Christopher Riopelle, “Renoir: The Great Bathers,” Philadelphia Museum of Art Bulletin 86, 367–68 (Fall 1990), pp. 18, 20, fig. 19. Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins, et aquarelles, vol. 3, 1895–1902 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2010), p. 500, no. 2570 (ill.). “Cat. 23: Study for “Bathers in the Forest,” 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
- 1895/97
- Medium
- Graphite on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory Japanese paper
- Dimensions
- 63.8 × 94.4 cm (25 1/8 × 37 3/16 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- prints and drawing
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
- Accession no.
- 2013.1010
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