About This Artwork
Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919
The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies Hélène, the Banker's Daughter1881
Black Conté crayon, with touches of black pastel, on cream laid paper
492 x 318 mm
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Bensinger, 1969.870R
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Buffalo, NY, The Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, "The T. Edward Hanley Collection," January 6-February 14, 1960, cat. 110.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings from the Hanley Collection," November 22-December 30, 1961, cat. 102.
Publication History
Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir I (Paris, 1918), no. 38 (ill.).
Ambroise Vollard, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Paris, 1919), p. 180 (ill.).
John Rewald, "Auguste Renoir and His Brother," Gazette des Beaux-Arts 27 (March 1945), p. 186 (ill.).
John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, 1946), no. 20 (ill.).
Walter Pach, Renoir (New York, 1950), p. 12 (ill.).
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 90, no. 5D6.
"Maineri to Miro: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), p. 80 (ill.).
Ownership History
Ambroise Vollard (1867-1939), Paris [Joachim 1979]. Mrs. J. H. Rosenbaum, New York, by 1946 [Rewald 1946]. Knoedler and Company, New York [label]. T. Edward Hanley, Bradford, Penn., by 1960 [Buffalo 1960]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to B. E. Bensinger, Chicago, March 9, 1967 [letter from the Art Dealers' Association of America of December 30, 1969 in curatorial file]; given to the Art Institute, 1969.