Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Richard Guino

Small Standing Venus

original model 1913; this cast before 1941

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Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Artist: Richard Guino

Small Standing Venus

original model 1913; this cast before 1941

Physical Qualities Bronze, 23-1/2 x 12 x 8-5/8 in. (59.7 x 30.5 x 21.9 cm.)

Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland

Object Number 1950.444

The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, purchased from the Buchholz Gallery , New York, 29 Nov. 1941

"Curt Valentin Memorial Exhibition", Curt Valentin Gallery, New York, 4 October 4-30, 1954.
"Baltimore Museum of Art, 1914", BMA, October 6-November 15, 1965, no. 204.
"Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art", Wildenstein Galleries, New York, March 29-May 11, 1974, no. 73.
"Impresario--Ambroise Vollard", Museum of Modern Art , New York, June 6-September 6, 1977; circulated to the Art Gallery of Ontario; Krannert Art Museum; Toledo Museum of Art, OH, through April 1978.

Waldemar George, "L'Oeuvre sculpte de Renoir, Amour de l'art," Paris, v. 5, Nov. 1924.

Paul Haesaerts, "Renoir Sculptor," (New York: Reynal and Hitchcock, 1947) 25, pl. 5-7.

"Baltimore Museum of Art News" October 1949, no. 133, p. 26.

"Handbook of the Cone Collection," (Baltimore: BMA, 1955) 71, no. 167.

"Handbook of the Cone Collection, Revised Edition," (Baltimore: BMA, 1967) 47, no. 156.

Una E. Johnson,"Ambrose Vollard, Editeur..." (new York: Museum of Modern Art, 1977) 170.

Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta," (Baltimore: BMA, 1985) 193.

Barbara Ehrlich White, "Renoir, His Life, Art, and Letters, (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1985).

Inscribed: On base, left rear: "Renoir"

Markings: Left rear, top of base: "XXI"