Bather Arranging Her Hair
1893
Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

Artwork overview
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Medium
oil on canvas
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 92.4 × 74 cm (36 3/8 × 29 1/8 in.)
framed: 110.2 x 94 cm (43 3/8 x 37 in.) -
Accession
1963.10.204
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard [1867-1939], Paris); (Galerie Georges Petit, Paris).[1] Alexandre Berthier [1883-1918], 4th Prince de Wagram, Paris; sold probably by his heirs though (Canadeesche Hypothek Bank) through (Étienne Bignou, Paris) to (Alex Reid & Lefèvre, London); on joint account with (M. Knoedler & Co., London, New York and Paris) and (Marcel Kapferer); sold May 1929 through (Galerie Étienne Bignou, Paris) to Chester Dale [1882-1962], New York;[2] bequest 1963 to NGA.
[1]Vollard and Petit according to annotated photograph in Bignou albums at the documentation center of the Musée d'Orsay (copies in NGA curatorial files).
[2] Purchased in May 1929 per Chester Dale papers in NGA curatorial files. Letters dated June-July 1929 from Etienne Bignou document his sending the Wagram pictures to London (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 218). Reid & Lefèvre Paintings Sold, sheet no. 206, #18/29 B1412 gives acquisition source and partial share information, and sale date of October 1929 (Lefèvre archives, Hyman Kreitman Research Centre, Tate Britain, London, TGA 2002/11, Box 283). See also M. Knoedler & Co. Records, accession number 2012.M.54, Research Library, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles: Painting Stockbook no. 5, London 1928-1939, and Stockbook no. 8, New York, no. A622; copies in NGA curatorial files
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1931
Renoir and His Tradition, Museum of French Art, New York, 1931, no. 22, repro.
1965
The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
Bibliography
1923
Régnier, Henri de. Renoir. Paris, 1923: repro. pl. 9.
1925
Goulinart, J.-G. "Technique picturale: Les sources du métier de Renoir." L'Art vivant I, no. 7 (April 1, 1925): 22-24, repro.
Coquiot, Gustave. Renoir. Paris, 1925: repro. p. 73
1928
André, Albert. Renoir. Paris, 1928: repro. pl. 54
Stein, Leo. A. Renoir 24 Phototypies. Les Albums d'art Druet XIII. Paris, 1928: plate 9.
1929
Meier-Graefe, Julius. Renoir. Leipzig, 1929: repro. p. 359, no. 285.
1931
Dale, Maud. "Auguste Renoir," Creative Art IX, no. 6 (December 1931):450-454, repro.
Flint, Ralph. "Renoir and His Tradition Seen in Loan Exhibit, Museum of French Art." Art News 30 (28 November 1931): 6, repro.
1938
Florisoone, Michel. Renior. Paris, 1938: repro. 133.
1941
Catalogue of French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 13, repro. pl. XXV
Frankfurter, Alfred M. "Now the Great French 19th Century in the National Gallery." Art News 40, no. 17 (December 15-31, 1941):repro. p. 18
1942
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 65, repro.
1944
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1944: 65, repro.
Frost, Rosamund. Pierre Auguste Renoir. New York, 1944:41, repro.
1952
Gaunt, William. Renoir. London, 1952: plate 69.
1953
French Paintings from the Chester Dale Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1953: 75, repro.
Berr de Turique, Marcelle. Renoir. Paris, c. 1953: repro. plate 69.
1961
Fosca, François. Renoir, His Life and Work. London, 1961: repro. 205.
1963
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 324, repro.
1965
Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 112.
Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 114, repro.
Lambourne, Nigel. Renoir: paintings, drawings, lithographs and echings. London, 1965: repro. 27.
1968
National Gallery of Art. European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. Washington, 1968: 101, repro.
Gandolfo, Giampaolo et al. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Great Museums of the World. New York, 1968: 83-84, color repro.
1972
Fezzi, Elda. L'opera completa di Renoir nel period impressionista. Milan, 1972: no. 670.
1974
Fouchet, Max-Pol. Les Nus de Renoir. Paris and Lausanne, 1974:148, repro.
1975
European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 294, repro.
1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 469, no. 685, color repro.
White, Barbara Ehrlich. Renoir: His Life, Art, and Letters. New York, 1984:repro. 197.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 339, repro.
1997
Kelder, Diane. The Great Book of French Impressionism, 1997, no. 235, repro.
Inscriptions
lower right: Renoir.
Wikidata ID
Q20190358