Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Richard Guino
Small Standing Venus
1912-1939
Scroll
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.
"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"
