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PIERRE-AUGUSTE RENOIR (1841-1919)
Gabrielle et Jean Renoir jouant—Étude
signed 'Renoir' (lower right)
charcoal and sanguine on paper laid down on board
29 3/8 x 21 3/8 in. (74.5 x 54.3 cm.)
Drawn circa 1895
Provenance
Ambroise Vollard, Paris.
Madeleine de Galéa, Paris (by descent from the above).
Lilli Wulf, New York.
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (March 1948).
Richard H. Zinser, New York (acquired from the above).
M. Knoedler & Co., Inc., New York (acquired from the above, September 1948).
Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, December 1948, then by descent to the late owner).
Literature
A. Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir Paris, 1918, vol. I, p. 44, no. 173 (illustrated prior to signature; titled Femme et enfants).
W. Pach, Pierre-Auguste Renoir New York, 1950, p. 14 (illustrated).
J.-L. Vaudoyer, Renoir, Paris, 1953 (illustrated, pl. 37; dated 1887).
G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1895-1902, Paris, 2010, vol. III, p. 481, no. 2527 (illustrated; titled Femme et enfants).
Exhibited
Cambridge, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Seventy Master Drawings, November 1948-January 1949.