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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Washerwomen

1882-1892

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Washerwomen

1882-1892

Physical Qualities Oil on canvas, 22 1/4 x 18 11/16 in. (56.5 x 47.5 cm.)
Credit Line The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number 1950.282
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, June 27, 1928; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Ambroise Vollard
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Leo Stein, "A. Renoir: 24 Phototypies," Paris: Librarie de France F. Stant'Andrea, 1928, n.p., ill. (Published as "Les Laveuses")
"The Cone Collection," "News-Record of The Baltimore Museum of Art," April 1930, vol. 3, no. 1, cover page, ill.
"The Baltimore Sun," "In the Cone Collection at the Museum Next Month," March 23, 1930, p. P2, ill. (Published as "Washerwoman")
"Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1930, pp.6, 12, no. 48, ill.
Claude Roger-Marx, "Renoir," Paris: Librairie Floury, 1933, p. 188, ill. (Published as "Les Laveuses")
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, p. 26, pl. 12, ill. (Published as "Les Blanchisseuses")
George Besson, "Renoir," Paris: Les Editions Braun & Cie, 1938, no.28, ill. (Published as "Laveuses")
"A Century of Baltimore Collecting 1840-1940," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1941, pp. 86, 116.
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. 8, 21.
"Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, Collectors," "Art News," vol. XLVIII, no. 9, January 1950, p. 40.
Doris Brian, "The Baltimore Museum's Cone Collection: A Pointed Star," "The Art Digest," January 15, 1950, vol. 24, no. 8, pp. 7, 21, p. 7, ill.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Memorial Exhibition," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," January-February, 1950, vol. XIII, nos. 4, 5, p. 13.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "From Ingres to Gauguin: French Nineteenth Century Paintings Owned in Maryland," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1951, p. 38, no. 129, ill.
Clive Bell, "Modern French Painting: The Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins Press, 1951, pp. 12-13, p. 13, ill.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, pp. 24, 39, no. 101.
Bennard B. Perlman, "The Baltimore Museum's 25th Anniversary," "Art Digest," May 15, 1955, vol. 29, no. 16, p. 18.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "A Picture Book: 200 Objects in the Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 53, ill.
Leslie Judd Portner, "Baltimore Museum Opens New Cone Wing: Aid from City," "The Christian Science Monitor," March 23, 1957, p. 10.
Kenneth B. Sawyer, "The New Cone Wing at the Museum of Art," "The Baltimore Sun," February 24, 1957, p. SM 10, ill.
"The Cone Wing," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 1957, p. 4, ill.
Barbara Pollack, "The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone," Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1962, pp. 177, ill. p. 175. (Published as "The Washerwomen")
Herbert and Marjorie Katz, "Museums, U.S.A.," New York: Doubleday & Company Inc., 1965, p. 31.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, pp. 17, 22, 68, no. 97, ill.
François Daulte, "Auguste Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Peint, vol. 1," Lausanne: Éditions Durand-Ruel, 1971, no. 572, ill. (Published as "Les Laveuses")
John Maxon and François Daulte, "Paintings by Renoir," Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1973, no. 56, ill.
"Reviews and Previews - Cone Collection," "Art News," January 1974, vol. 73, no. 1, p. 95.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection from the Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, no. 45.
Barbara Ehrlich White, "Renoir, His Life, Art, and Letters," New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1984, pp. 186, 187, 311, p. 187, ill.
Anne Distel, John House, John Walsh, Jr., and Susan Ferleger Brades, "Renoir," Paris: Réunion des musées Nationaux, 1985, pp. 260-261, no. 80, ill. (Published as "Les laveuses")
Edwin Mullins, "A Dream of Fair Women," "Telegraph Sunday Magazine," January 27, 1985, no. 431, p. 26, ill.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 28, 112, 119, 179, p. 28, ill.
John Russell, "Boston Succumbs to a Case of Renoir Fever," "The New York Times," October 20, 1985, p. 31H.
Nicholas Wadley, ed., "Renoir A Retrospective," New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1987, p. 170, ill.
"Runowaru," Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbunsha, 1991, pp. 68-69, p. 69, ill.
Anne Distel, "Renoir ," Paris: Gallimard and Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1993, pp. 97, 170, p. 97, ill. (Published as "Les Laveuses")
Patricia C. Johnson, "Two Sisters and Their Art," "The Houston Chronicle," November 21, 1993, p. 9, ill.
John House, Kathleen Adler and Anthea Callen, "Renoir: Master Impressionist," Sydney, Australia: Art Exhibitions Australia Limited, 1994, pp. 21, 23, 24, 101, 110, 111-112, 151, no. 31, ill.
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, pp. 126-127, 161, no. 66, ill.
John O'Brian, "Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse," Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 81, 282.
Sona K. Johnston and William R. Johnston, "The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse," London: Scala Publishers, 2000, pp. 1, 32, 116-117, 156, no. 39, ill.
Gilles Néret, "Renoir: Painter of Happiness, 1841-1919," New York: Taschen, 2001, pp. 271-273, 292, 295, pp. 271-273, ill.
Eric M. Zafran, "Impressionism to Surrealism from the Baltimore Museum of Art," Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2002, pp. 7-8, 21, no. 43, ill.
William Zimmer, "Following the Path of Gertrude Stein," "The New York Times," February 17, 2002, section 14CN, p. 13.
Cinémathèque Française, "Renoir Renoir: Pierre Renoir and his Film-Maker son, Jean Renoir," Paris: Éditions de La Martinière, 2005, pp. 96-97, 234, ill. p. 96. (Published as Les Laveuses")
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston, Kimberly Schenck and Cheryl K. Snay, "The Essence of Line: French Drawings by Ingres to Degas," University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, pp. 320, 388, fig. 1, ill.
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage, "The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt," Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008, pp. 122-123, 278, fig. 5.18, ill.
Emmanuelle Amoit-Saulnier, "Renoir: Pastels, Crayons, Sanguines, Aquarelles," Vanves, France: Éditions Hazan, 2009, p. 46, fig. 9, ill. (Published as "Les Laveuses")
Anne Distel, "Renoir," Paris: Éditions Citadelles & Mazenod, 2009, pp. 260-261, 397, fig. 238, ill. (Published as "Les Laveuses")
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, pp, 21, 46, 77, pl. 22, ill.
Paul Perrin, ed. Renoir entre mujeres: Del ideal moderno al ideal clásico. Madrid: Fundación Mapfre, 2016.
Un autre Renoir. Troyes, France: Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Troyes; Ghent, Belgium: Éditions Snoeck, 2017.
Sotheby's: Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale, p. 65, Fig 3.

Inscribed: Recto: Lower right in paint, "Renoir" Verso: The painting has been wax lined and there are no visible inscriptions on the verso.

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir

1840–1918

French, 1841-1919
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