Recumbent Female Nude
Original Language TitleFemme Nue couchée, tournée â droite
Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(French, 1841 - 1919)
Dateca. 1906
MediumEtching
DimensionsImage: 4 3/4 × 7 1/2 inches (12.07 × 19.05 cm)
Sheet: 13 × 15 3/4 inches (33.02 × 40.01 cm)
Sheet: 13 × 15 3/4 inches (33.02 × 40.01 cm)
Credit LineBequest of Jeanne McCray Beals in memory of David Thomas Beals II, Helen Ward Beals, and David Thomas Beals III
Object number2006.9.38
Signedb.r. margin (in brown ink): "Renoir" [printed?]
On View
Not on viewCollections
DescriptionNude female in horizontal position, lying on bed with her head at the right of compostiiton. Eyes closed. Her left arm bent with hand behind head, with two large pillows behind.Exhibition HistoryNo known exhibitions at this time.
Jeanne McCray Beals (1933-2005), Fairway, Kansas, by September 22, 2005;
Estate of Jeanne McCray Beals, 2005- April 17, 2006;
Given the by estate of Jeanne McCray Beals to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2006.
Théodore Duret, Histoire de peintres impressionistes (Paris: H. Floury, 1906), 130.
Théodore Duret, Die Impressionisten (Berlin: Berlin Cassirer, 1909), 84.
Loys Delteil, Le Peintre-Graveur Illustré (Paris: Chez l'auteur, 1923).
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