Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Mme Rudolphe Hess (née Blanche Vandenbroeck), Waterloo
Musée royaux de beaux-arts de belgique, Brussels (bequest of the above in 1978)
Acquired from the above in the 2000s

Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. II, Paris, 1918, n.n., illustrated as part of a larger canvas pl. 108
Guy-Patrice & Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1911-1919 & 1er supplément, vol. V, Paris, 2014, no. 4382, illustrated p. 450

The canvas is not lined. There are two tiny dots of paint loss to the upper right corner and a few additional tiny dots of paint loss to the lower left corner. There are a few scattered fly spots. There is a thin line of surface abrasion running horizontally to the model's right arm (approx. 1.5 cm long). There is no evidence of retouching under UV light. This work is in good original condition.
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