Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Durand-Ruel, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1901)
Otto Wertheimer, Paris & Basel
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Gimpel & Hanover Galerie, Zurich
Acquired from the above on April 27, 1987

Nagoya City Art Museum; Hiroshima Art Museum & Nara Prefectural Museum, Renoir Retrospective Exhibition, 1988-89, no. 56, illustrated in the catalogue 

Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. IV, Paris, 2010, no. 2351, illustrated p. 375

This work is in very good condition. The canvas has an old French glue lining, which is not unusual. The paint layer is stable, clean and lightly varnished. Although there is typical thinness in the background and in the lower left, this is original and not abraded. Under UV light: no in-painting is apparent.
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