Girlhood

c. 1890

Auguste Renoir

Artist, French, 1841 - 1919

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    graphite on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    The Armand Hammer Collection

  • Dimensions

    sheet: 35.4 × 33.7 cm (13 15/16 × 13 1/4 in.)
    mount: 38.8 × 35.7 cm (15 1/4 × 14 1/16 in.)

  • Accession

    1991.217.25

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Private Collection, (sale London, Sotheby & Co., March 22, 1961, no. 103); Mrs. William Wilson, New York; Armand Hammer Collection, 1969; gift to NGA, 1991.

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1949

  • L'Enfance (Exposition au profit des Pauvres de la Fédération Nationale des Fils des Morts pour La France), Galerie Chapentier, Paris, 1949, no. 282.

1969

  • Exhibited with the Armand Hammer collection from 1969, beginning with Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis; except Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego, 1971, Pushkin Museum, Moscow, 1973, and Tennessee Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, 1976.

Bibliography

1961

  • The Burlington Magazine, Vol. 103 (March 1961), advertisement for Sotheby sale, illus.

Inscriptions

recto: in drawing, at lower right in graphite: Renoir; verso: none

Markings

none

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64536953

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