Pierre-Auguste Renoir

signed Renoir. (lower right) 

25 ⅞ by 21 ¾ in.

65.7 cm by 55.3 cm. 

Maurice Gangnat, Paris (acquired directly from the artist in 1912)

Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 25 June 1925, lot 88 (consigned by the estate of the above)

Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Henri Canonne, Geneva (acquired from the above in 1925)

Galerie Charpentier, Paris, 18 February 1939, lot 47 (consigned by the above)

Private Collection, Paris (acquired at the above sale)

Sam Salz, New York


Private Collection, Perrysburg (acquired from the above)

Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio (acquired as a gift from the above in 1955)

Sotheby’s, New York, 17 May 2022, lot 17 (consigned by the above)

Acquired at the above sale by the present owner

Toledo Museum of Art, What is Modern Art?, 1960 (titled Bather)

Toledo Museum of Art, The Collection of Mrs. C. Lockhart McKelvy, 1964, p. 18 and n.p., illustrated (titled Bather)

Columbus Museum of Art, Renoir's Women, 2005-06, p. 80 and p. 81, illustrated in color (titled Bather)

Fort Lauderdale, NSU Art Museum and Chattanooga, Hunter Museum of American Art, William J. Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Affinities and Distinctions, no. 32, p. 90 and p. 91, illustrated in color (titled Bather (Baigneuse))

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

Raymond Bouyer, "Les Renoir de la collection Gangnat," Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. XI, no. 5, April 1925, p. 248

John Rewald, ed., Renoir Drawings, New York and London, 1946 (1958 reprint), p. 23

Toledo Museum of Art, ed., A Checklist of European Paintings, Toledo, 1967, p. 9 (titled Bather)

Toledo Museum of Art, ed., The Toledo Museum of Art, European Paintings, Toledo, 1976, pl. 256, pp. 136-37 and p. 331, illustrated (titled Bather)

James G. Ravin, "Art and Medicine: Renoir," Bulletin, The Academy of Medicine of Toledo and Lucas County, vol. 71, no. 5, November-December, 1980, p. 21, illustrated (titled Bather)

Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, Renoir, Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux, pastel, dessins et aquarelles, 1911-1919 & 1er supplément, vol. V, Paris, 2014, no. 4307, p. 406, illustrated

Exh. Cat., Barcelona, Fundación Mapfre, Renoir entre Mujeres. Del ideal moderno al ideal clásico, 2016-17, p. 237, illustrated (in the artist's studio)  

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.