Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The dancer
1874142.5 x 94.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated, lower right: A. Renoir. 74.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Widener Collection
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
D368
Collection catalogues
Diane Kelder, French impressionists, from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., New York, 1980, pp. 38-39
John Walker, National Gallery of Art, Washington, New York, 1995, nr. 670
Literature
Bernhard Echte, Walter Feilchenfeldt, Kunstsalon Bruno & Paul Cassirer, 2011, p. 38
Gilles Néret, Renoir, Köln, 2019, p. 93
Provenance
with Durand-Ruel et Cie, Paris, sold 17 May 1878 to Deudon
Charles Deudon (1832-1914), Paris and Nice
his cousin Eugène Deudon (1841-1916), sold 8 March 1899 to Durand-Ruel
Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922), in his private collection, Paris
his family
inheritance from Estate of Peter A.B. Widener by gift through power of appointment of Joseph E. Widener, Elkins Park, after purchase by funds of the Estate, by 1925
gift 1942 to NGA
Other works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Grand Boulevards
1875
1875
Madame Henriot
c. 1876
c. 1876
Self-Portrait
1899
1899
Young Girl Bathing
1892
1892
Young woman braiding her hair
1876
1876