Pierre-Auguste Renoir

signed Renoir. (upper right) 

23 by 18 ⅛ in.

58.5 by 46 cm.  

Emmanuel Chabrier, Paris (acquired directly from the artist)

Marie Alice Dejean Charbrier, Paris (acquired by descent from the above)

Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (on deposit from the above on 9 June 1896 and then acquired from the above on 18 May 1897)

Galerie Durand-Ruel, New York (acquired from the above in 1925)

Mrs. Marshall Field, New York (acquired from the above on 12 October 1925)

Mrs. Albert J. Beveridge, Boston (acquired as a gift from the above)

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acquired as a gift from the above on 13 November 1952 and until 27 December 1984)

Thomas Gibson Fine Art Ltd., London (acquired by February 1985)

M. and Mme. Robert Schmit, Paris (acquired circa 1987)

Sotheby’s, Paris, 8 December 2021, lot 7 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Tableaux, pastels, dessins par Renoir (1841-1919), 1920, no. 70 (titled Buste de femme)

New York, Acquavella Galleries, XIX & XX Century Master Drawings and Watercolors, 1986, no. 3, p. 8 and n.p., illustrated in color (titled Portrait of a Young Girl Seated and dated 1879)

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres Français, XIXe-XXe siècles, 1988, no. 59, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Portrait de jeune fille and dated 1879)

Paris, Galerie Schmit, 25 Ans d'Expositions, Maîtres Français, XIXe-XXe siècles, 1990, no. 55, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Portrait de jeune fille and dated 1879)

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Delacroix à Braque, Maîtres Français XIXe-XXe siècles, 2001, no. 46, n.p., illustrated in color (titled Buste de jeune fille)

Paris, Galerie Schmit, Maîtres Français, XIXe-XXe siècles, 2010, no. 41, illustrated in color (titled Buste de jeune fille)

Hong Kong, Gagosian, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 2022-23

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux, pastel, dessins et aquarelles, 1858-1881, vol. I, Paris, 2007, no. 635, p. 599, illustrated (titled Buste de femme (Portrait d’une jeune fille assise))  

This work is accompanied by an Attestation of Inclusion from the Wildenstein Institute, and it will be included in the forthcoming Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonné, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.