Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)

La lecture

Details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841-1919)
La lecture
with the stamped signature (lugt 2137b)(lower right)
oil on canvas
22 x 18¼ in. (55.8 x 46.3 cm.)
Painted in 1890

Provenance

The Renoir family, Cagnes.
Private collection, Paris.

Literature

ed. Bernheim-Jeune, L'Atelier de Renoir, Vol. I, Paris, 1931, no. 52 (illustrated pl. 21).
F. Daulte, Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint de Renoir, Vol. I, Les Figures (1860-1890), Lausanne, 1971, no. 640.

Lot Essay

A painting delicate and supple in its execution, the present work is a study for La lecture (fig. 1), now housed in the Portland Art Museum, Oregon.

The young model with the auburn hair reappears in Renoir's The Piano Lesson (Musée d'Orsay, Paris), a commissioned work purchased by Henri Roujon, Director of Fine Arts, to form part of a permanent collection of the works of living painters in the Luxembourg Palace.

Sold with a photo-certificate from Franois Daulte dated Lausanne, le 11 mars 1985.

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