Bathers in a Forest

Provenance

Sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Jan. 31, 1966 [Sold for the benefit of L’Union Catholique du Theater et de la Musique, at a private auction, according to Paris, 1985]. Galerie Robert Schmit, Paris, by 1985 [Paris, 1985]. Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris, by April 1985 [Paris, 1985]. Grob Gallery, London, by September 1990 [frame labels]. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Dec. 3, 1991, lot 28, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Bathers in a Forest

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1895/97

Accession Number

186400

Medium

Graphite on tan wove paper, laid down on ivory Japanese paper

Dimensions

63.8 × 94.4 cm (25 1/8 × 37 3/16 in.)

Classification

prints and drawing

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection