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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Woman Crocheting
c. 1875
A young woman sits in a middle-class interior, absorbed in an everyday task. Her informal pose and comfortable clothing suggest that this is an image of contemporary domestic life rather than a portrait. Sunlight shines on the model’s hair and softens the contours of her body, highlighting her bare shoulder and forearm. This is the very first of more than thirty paintings by Renoir that Sterling Clark acquired for his collection.
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
28 15/16 x 23 3/4 in. (73.5 x 60.3 cm)
Frame: 39 7/8 x 34 5/8 x 3 1/2 in. (101.3 x 87.9 x 8.9 cm)
Object Number
1955.603
Acquisition
Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status
On View
Image Caption
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Woman Crocheting, c. 1875, oil on canvas. Clark Art Institute, 1955.603
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Lees, Sarah, ed. Nineteenth-Century European Paintings at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; New Haven and London: distributed by Yale University Press, 2012.
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[Durand-Ruel, Paris, before 1881, transferred to Durand-Ruel, New York, 4 May 1888];¹ [Durand-Ruel, New York, sold to Lambert, 1888]; Catholina Lambert, Paterson (1888-1916, his sale, American Art Association, New York, 22 Feb. 1916, no. 152, ill., as Girl Knitting, sold to Scott & Fowles); [Scott & Fowles, New York, sold to Clark, 16 Dec. 1916, as Girl Knitting]; Robert Sterling Clark (1916–55); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.
1. According to the Durand-Ruel Archives, this painting was listed as La tricoteuse in the gallery’s stock in July 1881, but it must have been purchased earlier. It is possible that it was also the painting listed in the gallery’s stock in 1876 as Jeune fille tricotant, but this cannot be confirmed.
