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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Standing Bather
c. 1885
Female bathers were among Renoir’s favorite subjects in the mid-1880s. This small work may have been a preparatory study for a larger canvas. The regular brushstrokes and sharp-edged contours are typical of the artist’s style in this period, distinct from the softer, more fluid technique characteristic of his earlier paintings.
Image Caption
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Standing Bather, c. 1885, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.605
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
17 1/16 x 10 3/4 in. (43.3 x 27.3 cm)
Frame: 23 x 16 3/4 x 2 1/16 in. (58.4 x 42.5 x 5.2 cm)
Object Number
1955.605
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
Off View
Select Bibliography
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute.. Exhibit Six: Impressionist Paintings.. Opened Sept. 18, 1956.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1970. François Daulte.. Auguste Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint.. Paris: Durand-Ruel.. 1971.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling & Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1972. Wattenmaker, Richard J. Puvis de Chavannes and the Modern Tradition. Exhibition catalogue. Toronto: Art Galery of Ontario, 1975. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1984. Kern, Steven, ed. List of Paintings in the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1992. Kern, Steven, et al. A Passion for Renoir: Sterling and Francine Clark Collect, 19161951. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., in association with the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1996 Christie's, New York.. Property from the John and Frances L. Loeb Collection.. May 12, 1997.. Tamar Garb.. Bodies of Modernity: Figure and Flesh in Fin-de-Siècle France.. London: Thames and Hudson.. 1998.. Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
Provenance
Boskowitz, Paris, sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, 4 May 1892; [Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York, 1892–1919, sold to Henderson, 15 Dec. 1919]; Hunt Henderson, New Orleans (from 1919); [Jacques Seligmann, New York, sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, 3 Mar. 1937]; [Durand-Ruel, New York, sold to Clark, 10 Nov. 1938]; Robert Sterling Clark (1938–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.