{"data":{"id":113794,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/113794","is_boosted":false,"title":"The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, the Banker\u2019s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir\u2019s \u201cL\u2019\u00e9tiquette\u201d) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso)","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAwAFAPMAAJ+UhaGVhqSXh6WZiqicjaidj66ik7eqmb+xoMO1o8e5p8e5qM\/ArM\/ArtjJtQAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAADAAUAAAQLsA10gkmgNFGcWhEAOw==","width":6950,"height":10589,"alt_text":"A work made of black chalk (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper (discolored to tan)."},"main_reference_number":"1969.870","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1881,"date_end":1881,"date_display":"1881","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Pierre Auguste Renoir\nFrench, 1841-1919","place_of_origin":"France","description":null,"short_description":null,"dimensions":"49.2 \u00d7 31.9 cm (19 3\/8 \u00d7 12 9\/16 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":31,"height":49,"diameter":null,"clarification":null}],"medium_display":"Black chalk (recto and verso) on ivory laid paper (discolored to tan)","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"Gift of Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Bensinger","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Ambroise Vollard, Tableaux, pastels et dessins de Pierre-Auguste Renoir, vol. 1 (A. Vollard, 1918), p. 10, no. 38 (ill.).\n\nAmbroise Vollard, La vie et l\u2019oeuvre de Pierre-Auguste Renoir (A. Vollard, 1919), p. 180 (ill.).\n\nWalter Pach, Renoir (Abrams, 1950), p. 12 (ill.).\n\nWalter Pach, Auguste Renoir: Leben und Werk (M. Dumont Schauberg, 1976), pp. 26\u201327, no. 18 (ill.).\n\nHarold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 2 (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 90, no. 5D6.\n\nDouglas W. Druick, Renoir, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abrams, 1997), pp. 91, no. 10 (ill.), 110.\n\nJohn House, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: La Promenade (J. Paul Getty Museum, 1997), pp 78\u201379, fig. 51.\n\nMartha Tedeschi, \u201cPierre Auguste Renoir, Workers\u2019 Daughters on the Outer Boulevard (Illustration for Emile Zola\u2019s \u2018L\u2019Assommoir\u2019), 1877\/78,\u201d in \u201cMaineri to Mir\u00f3: The Regenstein Collection since 1975,\u201d special issue, Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (2000), p. 80 (ill.).\n\nGuy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, with the collaboration of Camille Fr\u00e9montier-Murphy, Renoir: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 des tableaux, pastels, dessins, et aquarelles, vol. 1, 1858\u20131881 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2007), p. 612, no. 658 (ill.).\n\n\u201cCat. 13: The Descent from the Summit: Jean Martin Steadies H\u00e9l\u00e8ne, the Banker\u2019s Daughter (Illustration for Edmond Renoir\u2019s \u201cL\u2019\u00e9tiquette\u201d) (recto); Half-Length Sketch of a Woman (verso),\u201d in Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. 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