About This Artwork

Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Emile Zola's "L'Assommoir"), 1877/78

Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
275 x 399 mm
Signed recto, bottom left: "Renoir"
The Regenstein Collection, 1986.420

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

New York, De Hauke and Company, "Watercolors and Drawings of the 19th and 20th Century," December 1929.

Providence, R.I., Rhode Island School of Design, "French Painting," 1931.

Buffalo, N.Y., Albright Art Gallery, "Master Drawings," January 1935, cat. 122 (ill.).

New London, Conn., Lyman Museum of Fine Arts, "Drawings," 1936.

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, "Art in New England," June 8-September 10, 1939, cat. 200.

San Francisco, Calif., Golden Gate International Exhibition, Summer, "Master Drawings," 1940, cat. 85.

Omaha, Neb., Joslyn Art Museum, 1941-46.

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Nineteenth Century French Drawings," March 8-April 6, 1947, p. 64, cat. 105 (ill.)..

Rotterdam, Boymans Museum, "French Drawings in American Collections," 1958, cat. 181, pl. 165; traveled to Paris, Musée de Orangerie and New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Newark Museum, March 16-April 30, 1961, cat. 45.

Cambridge, Mass., Fogg Art Museum, "Forty Master Drawings from the Collection of John Nicholas Brown," June 1962, cat. 23

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Acquisitions in the Regenstein Collection 1974-1989," February 2-May 8, 1990.

New York, The Frick Collection, "From Pontormo to Seurat: Drawings Recently Acquired by The Art Institute of Chicago," April 23-July 7, 1991, n.p., cat. 51; traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, September 10, 1991-January 5, 1992.

Publication History

Théodore Duret, Histoire des peintres impressionistes (Paris, 1906), p. 102 (ill.).

Ambroise Vollard, La vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Paris, 1919), p. 161 (ill.).

Art in New England (1939), no. 200, pl. LXXXV.

Kimon Nicolaides, The Natural Way to Draw (1941), p. 98 (ill.).

John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, 1946), no. 4 (ill.).

H. J. Wechsler, French Impressionists and their Circle (ill.).

Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, III (New York), no. 798 (ill.).

Hollis Clayson, Painted Love: Prostitution in French art of the Impressionist Era (New Haven, 1991).

The Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures from The Art Institute of Chicago (New York, 2000), p. 206 (ill.).

"Maineri to Miró; The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26 (2000), p. 78-79 (ill.).

Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 13.

Paul Hayes Tucker, "Renoir in the 1870s and 80s: Modernity, Tradition, and Individuality," in Renoir: From Outsider to Old Master, 1870-1892, exh. cat. (Tokyo, 2001), p. 220, fig. 11.

Ownership History

Sold by De Hauke and Company, Inc., New York, to John Nicholas Brown (died 1979), Newport, R.I., October 16, 1929 [invoice]; sold by Brown Estate to David Tunick, Inc., New York [Williams Alumni Review]; sold to the Art Institute, 1986.