Pierre-Auguste Renoir - The dancer



Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The dancer
1874
142.5 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
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

External links

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Accession number 1942.9.72

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