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Bather Arranging Her Hair
Pierre-Auguste Renoir1893
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Washington, DC, United States
Details
- Title: Bather Arranging Her Hair
- Creator: Auguste Renoir
- Date Created: 1893
- Physical 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.)
- 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
- Rights: CC0
- Medium: oil on canvas
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