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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1943.908
People
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French (Limoges 1841 - 1919 Cagnes)
Title
The Meeting
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
1883
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/293701

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Black ink and black chalk on white wove paper
Dimensions
actual: 44.8 x 29.1 cm (17 5/8 x 11 7/16 in.)
Inscriptions and Marks
  • Signed: Signed, lower left, brown ink: Renoir

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
[Scott & Fowles, New York, April 1924, sold;] to Grenville L. Winthrop, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1943.

Notes:
1. On the verso of a photograph of this drawing in its object file is written in pencil: “Property of Paul Rosenberg, Mar. 1929.” The meaning of this notation is unclear.


Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
Accession Year
1943
Object Number
1943.908
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • La Vie Moderne, December 8, 1883, illustration for Paul Lhote's short story "Un ideal"
  • Charles Léger, "Renoir Illustrateur", L'Art Vivant (Paris, January 1933), no. 168, p. 9, repr.
  • John Rewald, Renoir Drawings (New York, NY, 1946), repr. p. 18 as pl. 19
  • Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Renoir 1858-1881, Editions Bernheim-Jeune (Paris, 2007), vol. 2, no. 1589, repr.

Verification Level

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