Pierre-Auguste Renoir

(French, 1841-1919)

Jeune Fille Tricotant (Drawing for the Letter 'L'), 1879

Pen and brown ink on paper

Signed Renoir (lower right)

Sheet size: 5 3/8 x 4 1/4 in. (13.7 x 10.8cm)

This lot is located in Chicago.

Provenance:

Collection of Edmond Renoir, the artist's brother.

Sotheby's, London, sale of July 7, 1960, lot 101.

Acquired directly from the above sale.

Laing Galleries, Toronto, Canada.

Exhibited:

Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, 1959.

Literature:

Gazette des Beaux Arts, March 1943, p. 171 (illustrated).

John Rewald, Renoir Drawings, H. Bittner & Co., New York, 1946, p. 12, used as an illustration within the text.

Arts, September 3, 1948 (illustrated).

Guy-Patrice et Michel Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue Raisonné des Tableaux, Pastels, Dessins, et Aquarelles, 1858-1881, Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 2007, Vol. 1, p. 619, no. 666 (illustrated).

Note:

The present work was executed in 1879 for Edmond Renoir, the artist's brother, as the initial L for one of his articles.

Jeune Fille Tricotant (Drawing for the Letter 'L'), 1879

Jeune Fille Tricotant (Drawing for the Letter 'L'), 1879