CHECKLIST

Peter Paul Rubens
Flemish, 1577–1640
The Three Graces
c. 1636
Oil on panel
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London. Bourgeois Bequest, 1811
 
François Boucher
French, 1703–1770
Pan and Syrinx
1759
Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London. Presented by Mrs. Robert Hollond, 1880
 
Eugène Delacroix
French, 1798–1863
Andromeda
1852
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Museum purchase funded by Mr. and Mrs. Raymond H. Goodrich, by exchange
 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Copy after “The Council of the Gods” by Peter Paul Rubens
1861
Oil on canvas
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo. Donated by Mr. Ryuzaburo Umehara
 
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Self-Portrait
c. 1875
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1939
1955.584

Renoir and Realism

Gustave Courbet
French, 1819–1877
Woman with a Mirror
1860
Oil on canvas
Private collection

Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
French, 1796–1875
The Repose
1860, reworked c. 1865/70
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection)

Gustave Courbet
French, 1819–1877
The Bather
c. 1866
Oil on canvas
Private collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Boy with a Cat
1868
Oil on canvas
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
A Nymph by a Stream
1869–70
Oil on canvas
National Gallery, London. Bought 1951

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bather with a Griffon Dog - Lise on the Bank of the Seine
1870
Oil on canvas
Collection of Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand. Gift of Leão Gondim de Oliveira; Indústrias Químicas e Famacêuticas Schering S.A.; Diários Associados de Minas Gerais, O Cruzeiro, and Mário Simonsen, 1958

Impressionist Figure Painting

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Sleeping Girl
1880
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1926
1955.598

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Woman Crocheting
c. 1875
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by Sterling Clark, 1916
1955.603

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Study. Torso of a Woman in the Sunlight
1875–76
Oil on canvas
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Bequest of Gustave Caillebotte, 1894

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Young Woman Braiding Her Hair
1876
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Seated Bather
c. 1883–84
Oil on canvas
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachussetts, Bequest from the collection of Maurice Wertheim, class of 1906

Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917
Woman Brushing Her Hair
c. 1884
Oil on canvas
Kreeger Museum, Washington, DC

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Blonde Braiding Her Hair
1886
Oil on canvas
Dallas Museum of Art. Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc., in honor of Gene Jones

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Young Girl Bathing
1892
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Robert Lehman Collection, 1975

Cézanne, Degas, Renoir

Paul Cézanne
French, 1839–1906
Three Bathers
1879–1882
Oil on canvas
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Henri Matisse, 1936

Paul Cézanne
French, 1839–1906
The Battle of Love
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gift of the W. Averell Harriman Foundation in memory of Marie N. Harriman

Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917
The Bathers
c. 1895–1900
Pastel and charcoal on tracing paper, pieced and mounted on cardboard
Art Institute of Chicago, Gift of Nathan Cummings

Edgar Degas
French, 1834–1917
After the Bath, Three Nude Women
c. 1895
Pastel on paper
Private collection, Fort Worth, Texas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bathers Playing with a Crab
c. 1897
Oil on fabric
Cleveland Museum of Art. Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bathers Playing with a Crab
c. 1897–1900
Pastel on laid paper
Collection of Jean Bonna, Geneva

Classical Impressionism

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Blonde Bather
c. 1882–83
Red chalk on wove tissue paper, mounted on board
Dallas Museum of Art. Wendy and Emery Reves Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Blonde Bather
c. 1881–82
Red chalk on wove tissue paper, mounted on board
Dallas Museum of Art. Wendy and Emery Reves Collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Blonde Bather
1881
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1926
1955.609

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Three Foreground Figures (Study for The Great Bathers)
c. 1884–87
Red and black chalk with white chalk highlights on paper
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Bequest of Jacques Laroche, 1946

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
The Bathing Spot
c. 1884–87 or later
Red and white chalk on paper
Thyssen-Bornemisza Collections

Study of Nudes
c. 1884–87 or later
Red and white chalk on paper
Dallas Museum of Art. Eugene and Margaret McDermott Art Fund, Inc.
[Fig.] Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Bathers in the Forest, c. 1897. Oil on canvas, 29 1/8 x 39 3/8 in. (74 x 100 cm). Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Splashing Figure (Study for The Great Bathers)
c. 1884–87
Red, white, and black chalk, with stumping, and black conté crayon on tan wove (tracing) paper, laid down on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago. Bequest of Kate L. Brewster

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Two Nude Women (Study for The Great Bathers)
c. 1884–87
Red and white chalk on buff wove paper
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Bequest from the collection of Maurice Wertheim, class of 1906

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Three Right Figures and Part of a Foot (Study for The Great Bathers)
c. 1884–87
Red chalk and heightening on paper
Private collection, Paris

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bathers (Study for The Great Bathers)
c. 1884–87
Red and white chalk, with smudging and blending on wove paper lined to canvas
Morgan Library and Museum, New York. Bequest of Drue Heinz

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bather Arranging Her Hair
1885
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1937
1955.589
 

Renoir and the Decorative Tradition

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Little Blue Nude
c. 1878–79
Oil on canvas
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. General purchase funds, 1941

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Study for “Scene from Wagner’s Tannhäuser, Third Act”
1879
Oil on canvas
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark, 1950
1955.608

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bather Seated on a Rock
c. 1883–88
Oil on canvas
Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris

Bather
c. 1883–88
Oil on canvas
Seiji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Museum of Art

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919

Nude in an Armchair
1885–90
Pastel on paper
Private collection

Nude in an Armchair
1900
Oil on canvas
Kunsthaus Zürich. Bequest of Dr. Hans Schuler, 1920

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
A Young Girl with Daisies
1889
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ittleson Jr. Purchase Fund, 1959

François Boucher
French, 1703–1770
Diana Leaving Her Bath
1742
Oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre, Paris. Acquired in 1852
 

The Late Years

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bather Seated in a Landscape, Called Eurydice
1902–4
Oil on canvas
Musée Picasso, Paris

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Gabrielle with a Rose (La Sicilienne)
c. 1899
Oil on canvas
Private collection

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919

Bather with Blonde Hair
c. 1903
Oil on canvas
Österreichische Galerie Belvedere

Seated Bather
c. 1903–6
Oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts. Bequest of Robert H. Tannahill

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973
Nude Combing Her Hair
1906
Oil on canvas
Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Reclining Female Nude
1906
Oil on canvas
Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris. Collection of Jean Walter and Paul Guilluame

Large Nude on Cushions
1907
Oil on canvas
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Donated by Mr. and Mrs. Robert Kahn Sriber, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. Fernand Moch, 1975

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
The Spring (La Source)
c. 1910
Oil on canvas
Museum of Fine Arts, Gifu, Japan

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Young Shepherd in Repose (Portrait of Alexander Thurneyssen)
1911
Oil on canvas
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence. Museum Works of Art Fund

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Seated Bather
1914
Oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Endowment; through prior bequest of Annie Swan Coburn to the Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Fund; through prior acquisition of the R. A. Waller Fund

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bust of a Model
1916
Oil on canvas
Musée Picasso, Paris

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Bathing Women
1918
Oil on canvas
Nationalmuseum Stockholm. Acquired 1918

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
The Concert
1918–19
Oil on canvas
Collection Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto. Gift of Reuben Wells Leonard Estate, 1954

Renoir and Sculpture

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
with Richard Guino
Spanish, 1890–1973
Small Venus Victorious
1913
Bronze
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. William Francis Warden Fund

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
with Richard Guino
Spanish, 1890–1973
Venus Victorious
1914
Bronze
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts. Acquired by the Clark, 1970
1970.11

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
with Richard Guino
Spanish, 1890–1973
Clock, Hymn to Life
1914
Bronze
National Gallery of Ireland. Purchased 1966, Shaw Fund

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
Study of “Venus Victorious”
1914
Watercolor on paper
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
with Richard Guino
Spanish, 1890–1973
The Large Washerwoman
1917
Bronze
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Purchased with the Diamond Jubilee Purchase Fund subscribed by Members and Friends of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1952

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
with Louis Fernand Morel
French, 1887–1975

Pipe Player
c. 1918–19
Terracotta
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of an anonymous donor, 1991

Dancer with Tambourine
c. 1918–19
Terracotta
Philadelphia Museum of Art. Gift of anonymous donor, 1991
 

Renoir’s Legacy

Suzanne Valadon
French, 1865–1938
Two Figures (After the Bath, Neither White nor Black)
1909
Oil on cardboard
Centre Pompidou, Paris, Musée national d’art modern/Centre de creation industrielle. Bequest of Doctor Robert le Masle, 1974

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841–1919
The Bathers
1918–19
Oil on canvas
Musée d’Orsay, Paris. Gift of the artist’s sons, 1923

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973
The Bathers
1920–21
Oil on canvas
Nahmad Collection

Fernand Léger
French, 1881–1955
Three Women and Still Life
1921
Oil on canvas
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland. Collection Beyeler

Pierre Bonnard
French, 1867–1947
Reclining Nude
1927
Oil on canvas
Private collection. Courtesy Neffe-Degandt Fine Art Ltd. and Jill Newhouse

Aristide Maillol
French, 1861–1944
The Three Nymphs
1930–38, cast 1966–67
Lead
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Gift of Lucille Ellis Simon, in honor of the 50th anniversary of the National Gallery of Art

Henri Matisse
French, 1869–1954
Nude with Crossed Legs
1936
Oil on canvas
Nahmad Collection

Pablo Picasso
Spanish, 1881–1973
Two Reclining Nudes
1968
Oil on canvas
Nahmad Collection

Ambroise Vollard
French, 1867–1939
La vie et l’œuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (The Life and Work of Pierre-Auguste Renoir)
1919
Clark Art Institute Library, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Ambroise Vollard
French, 1867–1939
Renoir: An Intimate Record
1925
Clark Art Institute Library, Williamstown, Massachusetts 

Offering the first-ever comprehensive investigation of Renoir’s nudes, Renoir: The Body, The Senses was published by the Clark Art Institute and edited by the exhibition’s curators, Esther Bell, Robert and Martha Berman Lipp Chief Curator of the Clark Art Institute, and George T. M. Shackelford, deputy director of the Kimbell Art Museum. This beautifully illustrated catalogue includes essays by Colin B. Bailey, Morgan Library & Museum; Martha Lucy, Barnes Foundation; Nicole R. Myers, Dallas Museum of Art; and Sylvie Patry, Musée d’Orsay; with an interview between contemporary figurative painter Lisa Yuskavage and Alison de Lima Greene, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.