About This Artwork
Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919
Woman Seated in a Chairc. 1883
Charcoal, with graphite, on off-white wove paper
362 x 310 mm
Samuel P. Avery Fund, 1943.520R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Drawings: Old and New," 1946, p. 22, cat. 44, pl. X, cat. by Carl Schniewind.
Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "Exhibition of French Drawings (Le Fin du Siècle)," October 5–November 1, 1952.
Publication History
John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, 1946), p. 18 no. 26, (ill.).
Hans Tietze, European Master Drawings in the United States (New York, 1947), pp. 290-291, no. 145 (ill.).
Regina Shoolman and Charles Slatkin, Six Centuries of French Master Drawings (New York, 1950), p. 202, pl. 114.
Ira Moskowitz, Great Drawings of All Time, vol. 3 (New York, 1962), no. 801 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 91, no. 5D8.
Ownership History
The artist’s estate, from 1919 [stamp, Lugt Suppl. 2137b, recto, lower right]; sold to André Schoeller (1879-1955), Paris [letter from Justin Thannhauser of June 5, 1943 in curatorial file]; André Schoeller, probably to at least July 27, 1939 [authentication signed and dated by Schoeller in curatorial file]. Sold by Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, to The Art Institute, 1943.