Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Reader
1889-1899
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
The Reader
1889-1899
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 8 1/4 x 7 1/8 in. (21 x 18.1 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.284
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, probably June 1925; Michael and Sarah Stein, Paris, by November 1907
Renoir
Renoir: Images of Women
Cone Wing Rotations 2020
Cone Wing Rotations 2023
Cone Wing Rotations 2024
Cone Wing Rotations 2025
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1930, p. 6, no. 49. (Published as "Girl Reading")
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, p. 26, pl. 13, ill. (Published as "La Lecture")
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin, and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 9, 21, ill. p. 9.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1951, p. 39, no. 130.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 39, no. 103.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, p. 68, no. 98.
"Americans in Paris," "Newsweek," December 14, 1970, p. 80, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, pp. 45, 80, 86, 173, ill. p. 45.
Douglas Cooper, Irene Gordon, Lucile M. Golson, Ellen B. Hirschland, Leon Katz and William Voss Elder III, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1971, p. 26.
"Auguste Renoir: Graphic Retrospective," Ft. Lauderdale: Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, 1986.
Sona Johnston, "Sisters' Passion for the Arts: A Glimpse of the Cone Collection," Baltimore: Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, 1996, no. 11.
Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville, "Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins et Aquarelles 1895-1902," Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 2010, pp. 310, 572, no. 2236, ill. (Published as "Jeune femme lisant")
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde," San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp. 383, 384-385, 386-387, 450, 488, no. 403, pls. 368, 370, 373, 374, ill.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower right, "Renoir" Verso: Left on center stretcher in black grease pencil, "8"; middle of center stretcher in black ink, "#13"; center of top stretcher in black grease pencil, "Stein"
