Claude Renoir ("Coco"), 1908

Not on View

Medium

bronze

Dimensions

overall: 26.4 x 20.4 x 19.4 cm (10 3/8 x 8 1/16 x 7 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.242

Artists / Makers

Auguste Renoir (artist) French, 1841 - 1919

Image Use

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Inscription

on lower edge to right: Renoir; on back, lower edge: 9/30; on back, lower edge: CIRE / C. VALSUANI /PERDUE

Marks and Labels

FM: Valsuani

Provenance

(Barbazanges Gallery, Paris); purchased by Francis Crowninshield, New York; sold to Miss Mabel Choate, New York; re-purchased by Francis Crowninshield, New York; (his sale, Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 20-21 October 1943, 2nd day, no. 202);[1] Chester Dale [1883-1962], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1]See letter from Francis Crowninshield dated 16 October 1944. This states that he bought the bust from the Barbazanges Gallery in Paris, sold to Mabel Choate a few years later, then bought it back and put it in the Parke-Bernet sale a few years after that.

Associated Names

Choate, Mabel
Crowninshield, Francis
Dale, Chester
Galerie Barbazanges
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc.

Exhibition History

1965: The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.

Bibliography

1965: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Paintings & Sculpture of the French School in the Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 147, repro.

1965: Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 165, as Coco.

1994: Sculpture: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994: 188, repro.