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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.907
People
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French (Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cagnes)
Title
Mother and Child
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th-20th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/297419

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Red and white chalk on cream antique laid paper
Dimensions
sight: 44.7 x 30.7 cm (17 5/8 x 12 1/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed, lower right, red chalk: Renoir
  • watermark: J. A. in double oval

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Scott & Fowles, New York, January 5, 1926, sold;] to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.907
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, NY, 1946), p. 20, pl. 47
  • Agnes Mongan, Great Drawings of All Time, ed. Ira Moskowitz and Victoria Thorson, Shorewood Publishers Inc. (New York, 1962), cat. no. 805, n.p., repr.
  • Debora Mayer, "Technical Examination of Red Chalk" (thesis (certificate in conservation), Straus Center for Conservation and Technical Studies, 1982), Unpublished, pp. 1-33 passim
  • Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir 1858-1881, Editions Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 2007), vol. 2, no. 1581, repr.

Verification Level

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