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.

Vienna, Albertina, "Impressionism: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings", February 9 - May 13, 2012, p. 238 pl. 137, cat. by Christopher Lloyd.

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.