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Young Woman Sewing
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1879
Provenance
Ownership history
- Charles Deudon (died 1914), Paris and Nice [per Daulte 1971 and Distel 1989]. Paul Rosenberg and Co., Paris and New York, by Feb. 1921. [per Daulte 1971 and Distel 1989. Also Durand-Ruel Godfroy 1995 suggests that Deudon’s collection was sold by Deudon’s wife to Rosenberg]. Howard Young, New York [per Daulte 1971]. Mrs. Lewis Larned (Annie Swan) Coburn (d. 1932), Chicago, by June 1931 [See “French Masterpieces That One Day Will Belong to Art Institute,” Chicago Daily News, June 1931, p. 14 (ill.), which illustrates Mrs. Coburn in her home with the Art Institute’s painting hanging on the wall behind her]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1933.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Paul Rosenberg, Exposition d’oeuvres de grands maîtres du dix-neuvième siècle, May 3–June 3, 1922, cat. 74.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, Apr. 6–Oct. 9, 1932, cat. 32.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 344.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 235.
- New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings, May 18–Sept. 12, 1937, cat. 25 (ill.).
- Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts, Six Paintings by Renoir, Oct. 6–Nov. 6, 1938, cat. 1 (ill.).
- New York, Paul Rosenberg, Great French Masters of the Nineteenth Century: Corot to van Gogh, May 4–29, 1942, cat. 8 (ill.).
- Art Gallery of Toronto, Fifty Paintings by Old Masters, Apr. 21–May 21, 1950, cat. 37.
- New York, Wildenstein, Renoir: A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the American Association of Museums in Commemoration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of Renoir’s Death, Mar. 27–May 3, 1969, cat. 28 (ill.).
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 3–Apr. 1, 1973, cat. 25 (ill.).
- Tokyo, National Museum of Western Art, Masterpieces of World Art from American Museums: From Ancient Egyptian to Contemporary Art, Sept. 11–Oct. 17, 1976, cat. 45 (ill.); Kyoto National Museum, Nov. 2–Dec. 5, 1976.
- Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Museum of Art, The Crisis of Impressionism, 1878–1882, Nov. 2, 1979–Jan. 6, 1980, cat. 47 (ill.).
Literature
Published references
- “La curiosité: La collection Deudon,” Le bulletin de la vie artistique 1, 11 (May 1, 1920), p. 306 (ill.).
- Jacques-Émile Blanche, “La technique de Renoir,” L’amour de l’art 2, 2 (Feb. 1921), opp. p. 33 (ill.).
- Paul Rosenberg, Paris, Exposition d’oeuvres de grands maîtres du dix-neuvième siècle, exh. cat. (Frazier-Soye, 1922), p. 23, cat. 74.
- Julius Meier-Graefe, Renoir (Klinkhardt & Biermann, 1929), pp. 99, n. 1; 122, no. 108 (ill.).
- “French Masterpieces That One Day Will Belong to Art Institute,” Chicago Daily News, June 1931, p. 14 (ill.).
- Reginald Howard Wilenski, French Painting (Hale, Cushman & Flint, 1931), p. 262.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Exhibition of the Mrs. L. L. Coburn Collection: Modern Paintings and Watercolors, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1932), pp. 6; 22–23, no. 32.
- Daniel Catton Rich, “The Bequest of Mrs. L. L. Coburn,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 26, 6 (Nov. 1932), p. 68.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, 3rd ed., exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 49, cat. 344.
- Art Institute of Chicago, “The Rearrangement of the Paintings Galleries,” Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (Dec. 1933), p. 115.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of “A Century of Progress”: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), pp. 39–40, cat. 235.
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Illustrated Guide to the Collections (Art Institute of Chicago, 1935), p. 28.
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