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

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Prints and Drawings

1877/78

Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

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Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Title: Workers' Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Emile Zola's "L'Assommoir")
Origin: France
Date: 1877–1878
Medium: Pen and brown ink, over black chalk, on ivory laid paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, bottom left: "Renoir"
Dimensions: 275 × 399 mm
Credit Line: The Regenstein Collection
Reference Number: 1986.420

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Sold by Maurice Sachs (1906–1945), Paris, to De Hauke and Company, Inc., New York, July 1, 1929 [De Hauke and Company purchase book, p. 54, stock no. 1462, in Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904–1978, bulk 1913–1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, box 408, folder 4.]; sold to John Nicholas Brown II (1900–1979), Newport, R.I., Oct. 16, 1929 [De Hauke and Company sale book, p. 59, in Jacques Seligmann & Co. records, 1904–1978, bulk 1913–1974. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, box 408, folder 5.]; estate of John Nicholas Brown II, Newport, R.I., from 1979.; sold to David Tunick, Inc., New York, c. 1986; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1986.