Seated Bather

Provenance

The artist (d. 1919); placed on deposit with Durand-Ruel, Paris, Aug. 1914 [per Hayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris]; sold jointly to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, Ambroise Vollard, Paris, and Durand-Ruel, Paris, Aug. 2, 1917 [per Bernheim-Jeune & Cie Archives; see Guy-Patrice Dauberville to the Art Institute of Chicago, Apr. 27, 2001, curatorial object file]; all shares transferred to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Oct. 2, 1917. [per Bernheim-Jeune & Cie Archives, as confirmed by Camille Frémontier-Murphy to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 22, 2001, curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 23, 1945 [per Board of Trustees, Feb. 23, 1945, pp. 77–78, on file in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago].

Seated Bather

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1914

Accession Number

110798

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

81.1 × 67.2 cm (31 7/8 × 26 7/8 in.); Framed: 92.8 × 80.7 × 6.4 cm (36 1/2 × 31 3/4 × 2 1/2 in.)

Classification

oil on canvas

Museum

The Art Institute of Chicago

Chicago, United States

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Endowment; through prior bequest of Annie Swan Coburn to the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Fund; through prior acquisition of the R. A. Waller Fund