Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Child with Hoop
c. 1875
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Framed: 30 3/4 × 26 3/4 in. (78.1 × 67.9 cm.)
Overall: 24 1/2 × 19 1/4 in. (62.2 × 48.9 cm.)
Credit Line
The Helen and Abram Eisenberg Collection
Object Number
1976.55.8
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1976; Helen and Abram Eisenberg
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse", March 12 - September 16; no. 38, pp. 114-115, ill.; circulated to The Philbrook Museum of Art; The Norton Museum of Art; Dayton Art Institute; The Royal Academy of Arts; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery through January 6, 2002.
Sona K. Johnson, BMA, Baltimore, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated by Brain Trust to Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, January 11-February 16, 2003; Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, February 27-March 30, 2003; Okazaki City Museum, April 5-May 18, 2003; Suntory Museum, Osaka, May 24-July 6, 2003; Miyazaki Prefectural Museum, July 12-August 17, 2003.
Denver Art Museum, "Impressionism and the Art of the Past", circulated to High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 16, 2007-January 13, 2008; Denver Art Museum, February 23-May 25, 2008; and Seattle Art Museum, June 19-September 21, 2009.
Sona K. Johnson, BMA, Baltimore, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated by Brain Trust to Yamanashi Prefectural Museum of Art, January 11-February 16, 2003; Sakura City Museum of Art, Chiba, February 27-March 30, 2003; Okazaki City Museum, April 5-May 18, 2003; Suntory Museum, Osaka, May 24-July 6, 2003; Miyazaki Prefectural Museum, July 12-August 17, 2003.
Denver Art Museum, "Impressionism and the Art of the Past", circulated to High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, October 16, 2007-January 13, 2008; Denver Art Museum, February 23-May 25, 2008; and Seattle Art Museum, June 19-September 21, 2009.
Baltimore Museum of Art. Behold the Child. [Baltimore, MD]: [Baltimore Museum of Art], [1950], page 15.
The Taste of Maryland: Art Collecting in Maryland, 1830-1934. [Baltimore, MD]: [Walters Art Gallery], 1984, plate 70, page 41.
Sona Johnston. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. [Baltimore, MD]: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International, 1999, page 151.
Sona K. Johnson et al, "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: "Barbizon and Impressionist Works from The Baltimore Museum of Art" catalogue committee, 2003, no. 95, p. 132, ill. p. 133.
Ann Dumas, Ed., "Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past," published by Denver Art Museum, 2007 and distributed by Yale University Press, New Haven and London, cat. 81, p. 234, color ill.
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, "Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, 1858-1881," Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 2007, cat. 575, p. 552, ill.
Rosenthal, Gertrude, ed. From El Greco to Pollock: Early and Late Works by European and American Artists. Baltimore, MD: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1968, pp. 102, ill.
Inscribed: l.r. "Renoir"
