Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Washerwomen
1887
Scroll
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Washerwomen
1887
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 273 x 198 mm. (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.283
Two women kneeling beside a river; a third woman stands behind them, rolling up her sleeve; child stands at far right.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore, 1946; Fine Arts Associates, New York; André Marie Louis Mellerio (1862-1943), Paris.
The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Impressionism on Paper: Drawings from Monet to Van Gogh
Renoir
Renoir's Drawings
Bernard Pharisien, "Renoir de vigne en vin à Essoyes," Bar-sur-Aube: Imprimerie Némont, 2012, p. 16, repr. color on p. 17.
Emmanuelle Amoit-Saulnier, "Renoir: pastels, crayons, sanguines, aquarelles," Paris: Hazan, 2009, illus. p. 47 and 125.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 320-23, ill.
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1985, p. 194.
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1967, p. 68, no. 97 (see also 1955 edition, p. 39, no. 102).
The Baltimore Museum of Art News October 1949, p. 21, no. 82.
John Rewald, Renoir Drawings, New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1946, p. 22, no. 64.
Sona Johnston and William Johnston, The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse, London: Scala, 2000, p. 116 for discussion of the dating of the painting.
Inscribed: by later hand, upper right in graphite: "Dessin de Renoir"
Markings: CM: AMO (André Marie Louis Mellerio, 1862-1943, Lugt Suppl. 153a)
