Splashing Figure (Study for "The Large Bathers")

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Prints and Drawings

1884/85

Pierre Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Title: Splashing Figure (Study for "The Large Bathers")
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1884–1885
Medium: Red, white, and black chalk, with stumping, and black Conté crayon on tan wove (tracing) paper, laid down on canvas
Dimensions: 98.9 × 63.5 cm (38 15/16 × 25 in.)
Credit Line: Bequest of Kate L. Brewster
Reference Number: 1949.514
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Ambroise Vollard (1866–1939), Paris [Dauberville and Dauberville, 2009]. Sold by Adrien Hébrard (1833–1914), Paris, to Bernheim-Jeune & Cie., Paris, May 29, 1925 [Dauberville and Dauberville, 2009]; sold to Walter S. Brewster (1872–1954) and Kate L. Brewster (c. 1879–1947), Lake Forest, Ill., Mar. 19, 1926 [invoice]; bequeathed by Kate L. Brewster to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1949.

Cat. 19 Splashing Figure (Study for “Τhe Large Bathers”), 1884/85

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