sanguine, chalk and pastel on paper, paper size 46x38cm, signed, framed.

This work will be included in the forthcoming Pierre-Auguste Renoir Digital Catalogue Raisonne, currently being prepared under the sponsorship of the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, Inc.
This work will be included in the second supplement to the Catalogue raisonne des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles de Pierre-Auguste Renoir being prepared by Guy-Patrice DAUBERVILLE and Floriane DAUBERVILLE.

Literature :
Ambroise Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Paintings, pastels and drawings: tableaux, pastels et dessins (revised edition), San Francisco, Alan Wofsy Fine Arts, 1989, P.245.

Provenance :
Vollard, Paris, before 1919, acquired from the artist. Galerie Romanet, Paris. Joseph Katz, Pittsburgh. Private collection, March 1962, acquired from the above. Private collection.

Condition : lined to canvas (verso is not examined), toning, some minor stains, soiling and tears at the image, some minor surface wears to the edges.