About This Artwork

Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

On the Terrace of a Hotel in Bordighera: The Painter Jean Martin Reviews his Bill, 1881

Pen and brush and black ink, with black Conté crayon, on cream laid paper
452 x 354 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1977.491

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

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

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp.156-157, cat. 71 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10-May 16, 1986.

Publication History

Georges Rivière, Renoir et ses amis (Paris, 1921), p. 192 (ill.).

Léger, "Renoir illustrateur," L'Art Vivant 168 (January 1933), pp. 8-9 (ill.).

John Rewald, "Auguste Renoir and His Brother," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 27 (March 1945), pp. 171-188 (ill.).

John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, 1946), p. 18, no. 24 (ill.).

Phoebe Pool, Impressionism (New York, 1969), pp. 152-153 (ill.).

Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), p. 90, no. 5D7.

The Art Institute of Chicago, "Maineri to Mirô: The Regenstein Collection Since 1975," The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 26 (2000), pp. 80-81, no. 35 (ill.).

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

Ownership History

Charlotte Labille, Paris, by January 1, 1925 [inscription]. Raul Rosenberg, Paris and New York, by 1940-1946 [inscription; Rewald 1946]. Sold by E. V. Thaw and Company, New York, to the Art Institute, 1977.