{"data":{"id":25825,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/25825","is_boosted":false,"title":"Woman at the Piano","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAACciIy8tMD5UTkFFRkJITEJTVEdZU1FbZFNfZVBgYVdjY1dpalJtc1RteH2Ki2aAkXWTpYWZnoypua7I2AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAURoMA0ieEgQzEdwAI9gRJJRAgAOw==","width":18285,"height":22759,"alt_text":"Painting of a light-skinned woman dressed in a gauzy white gown with black trim playing an upright paino."},"main_reference_number":"1937.1025","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1875,"date_end":1876,"date_display":"1875\u201376","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841\u20131919)","place_of_origin":"France","description":null,"short_description":null,"dimensions":"93 \u00d7 74 cm (36 9\/16 \u00d7 29 1\/8 in.); Framed: 111.2 \u00d7 98.8 \u00d7 11.8 cm (43 3\/4 \u00d7 38 7\/8 \u00d7 4 5\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":74,"height":93,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":11,"width":98,"height":111,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower left: Renoir","credit_line":"Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Catalogue de la 2e exposition de peinture, exh. cat. (Alcan-L\u00e9vy, 1876), p. 21, cat. 219.\n\nPossibly Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell\/Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Impressionnistes, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of \u201cLa soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des impressionnistes,\u201d exh. cat. (Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, 1883), p. 9, cat. 13.\n\nPossibly unsigned review of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of \u201cLa soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des impressionnistes,\u201d Standard, Apr. 25, 1883, p. 2.\n\n\u201cGood Prices Realized. Close of the Durand-Ruel Sale of Paintings,\u201d New York Times, May 7, 1887, p. 5.\n\nDurand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, 1900), no. 39.\n\n\u201cArt Notes and News,\u201d New York Times, Apr. 8, 1900, p. 9.\n\nDurand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, 1908), no. 5.\n\nPossibly Durand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, 1912), cat. 19.\n\n\u201cRenoir at Durand-Ruel\u2019s,\u201d American Art News 10, 19 (Feb. 17, 1912), pp. 2, 9 (ill.).\n\nRenaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints, Summer 1931, exh. cat. (Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1931), cat. 73.\n\nRenaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago Bulletin (Spring and Summer 1931), p. 33 (ill.).\n\nRenaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, exh. cat. (Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1932), cat. 18.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture; Lent from American Collections, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1933), p. 48, cat. 337; pl. 56\/cat. 337.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cThe Century of Progress Exhibition of the Fine Arts,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 4 (Apr.\u2013May 1933), p. 67.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cThe Rearrangement of the Paintings Galleries,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 27, 7 (Dec. 1933), p. 115.\n\nPennsylvania Museum of Art, \u201cManet and Renoir,\u201d Pennsylvania Museum Bulletin 29, 158 (Dec. 1933), p. 19.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Catalogue of \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, 1934, ed. Daniel Catton Rich, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1934), p. 38, cat. 226.\n\nToledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, exh. cat. (Toledo Museum of Art, 1934), cat. 16.\n\nAlbert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia, The Art of Renoir (Minton, Balch, 1935), pp. 261, no. 97 (ill.); 401, no. 97; 451.\n\nHenry McBride, \u201cThe Renoirs of America: An Appreciation of the Metropolitan Museum\u2019s Exhibition,\u201d Art News 35, 31 (May 1, 1937), p. 158.\n\nToledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, exh. cat. (Toledo Museum of Art, 1937), cat. 24 (ill.).\n\nMetropolitan Museum of Art, Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings, exh. cat. (Metropolitan Museum of Art\/Bradford, 1937), no. 27 (ill.).\n\nJosephine L. Allen, \u201cPaintings by Renoir,\u201d Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art 32, 5 (May 1937), p. 112.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cAnnual Report of the Director,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago Report for the Year Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven 32, 3, pt. 3 (Mar. 1938), p. 46.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cExhibition of the Ryerson Gift,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 32, 1 (Jan. 1938), front cover (ill.), p. 4.\n\nJosephine L. Allen, \u201cThe Entire Ryerson Collection Goes to the Chicago Art Institute,\u201d Art News 36, 21 (Feb. 19, 1938), pp. 10 (ill.), 11.\n\nLionello Venturi, Les archives de l\u2019impressionnisme: Lettres de Renoir, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, et autres; M\u00e9moires de Paul Durand-Ruel; Documents, vol. 2 (Durand-Ruel, 1939), p. 258.\n\nAlfred M. Frankfurter, \u201cMaster Paintings and Drawings of Six Centuries at the Golden Gate,\u201d Art News 38, 38 (July 13, 1940), pp. 11 (ill.), 14.\n\nJulia G. Andrews, \u201cRare Paintings Displayed,\u201d San Diego Union, Oct. 13, 1940, p. 7C.\n\nGolden Gate International Exposition, Art, Official Catalog, exh. cat. (Recorder\/H. S. Crocker\/Schwabacher-Frey, 1940), pp. 20, cat. 292; 66, cat. 292 (ill.).\n\nReginald Howard Wilenski, Modern French Painters (Reynal & Hitchcook, [1940]), p. 337.\n\nDuveen Galleries, Renoir: Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1841\u20131941; For the Benefit of the Free French Relief Committee (Vilmorin\/Bradford, 1941), pp. 36, cat. 14 (ill.); 123\u2013124, cat. 14.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cThe United States Now an Art Publishing Center,\u201d Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago 36, 2 (Feb. 1942), p. 30.\n\n\u201cChicago Perfects Its Renoir Group,\u201d Art News 44, 16, pt. 1 (Dec. 1\u201314, 1945), p. 18.\n\nBruno F. Schneider, Renoir (Safari, [1957]), pp. 24, 26 (ill.). Translated into English by Desmond and Camille Clayton as Renoir (Crown, 1978), pp. 26 (ill.), 34.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Masterpieces in the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 1952), (ill.).\n\nCharles Fabens Kelley, \u201cChicago: Record Years,\u201d Art News 51, 4 (June\u2013Aug. 1952), p. 107.\n\nDorothy Bridaham, Renoir in the Art Institute of Chicago (Conzett & Huber, 1954), pl. 1.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), pp. 277 (ill.), 394.\n\nFrederick A. Sweet, \u201cGreat Chicago Collectors,\u201d Apollo 84, 55 (Sept. 1966), pp. 200, fig. 28; 202.\n\nCharles C. Cunningham, Instituto de arte de Chicago, El mundo de los museos 2 (Editorial Codex, 1967), pp. 11, ill. 32; 58, ill. 2.\n\nAndr\u00e9 Parinaud and Charles C. Cunningham, Art Institute of Chicago, Grands mus\u00e9es 2 (Hachette-Filipacchi, 1969), pp. 36, fig. 2; 69, no. 32.\n\nCharles C. Cunningham and Satoshi Takahashi, Shikago bijutsukan [Art Institute of Chicago], Museums of the World 32 (Kodansha, 1970), pp. 50, pl. 36; 159.\n\nJohn Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Abrams, 1970), p. 84 (ill.).\n \nFran\u00e7ois Daulte, Auguste Renoir: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019oeuvre peint, vol. 1, Figures, 1860\u20131890 (Durand-Ruel, 1971), pp. 170\u201371, cat. 187 (ill.).\n\nElda Fezzi, L\u2019opera completa di Renoir: Nel periodo impressionista, 1869\u20131883, Classici dell\u2019arte 59 (Rizzoli, 1972), p. 99, cat. 232 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), pp. 26; 68\u201369, cat. 20 (ill.); 74; 138; 210; 211; 214.\n\nWildenstein, Renoir: The Gentle Rebel; A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Association for Mentally Ill Children, with a foreword by Fran\u00e7ois Daulte, exh. cat. (Wildenstein, 1974), cat. 10 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), pp. 22; 98\u201399, pl. 55.\n\nPatricia Erens, Masterpieces: Famous Chicagoans and Their Paintings (Chicago Review, 1979), p. 36.\n\nJ. Patrice Marandel, The Art Institute of Chicago: Favorite Impressionist Paintings (Crown, 1979), pp. 68\u201369 (ill.).\n\nIsetan Museum of Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum, Exposition Renoir, exh. cat. (Isetan Museum of Art\/Kyoto Municipal Museum\/Yomiuri Shimbun Sha, 1979), cat. 16 (ill.).\n\nCharles F. Stuckey, with the assistance of Naomi E. Maurer, Toulouse-Lautrec: Paintings, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, [1979]), p. 158, fig. 2 (ill.).\n\nDiane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism (Abbeville, 1980), pp. 259 (ill.), 438.\n\nDiane Kelder, The Great Book of French Impressionism, Tiny Folios (Abbeville, 1980), p. 156, pl. 16.\n\nMus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec and Art Institute of Chicago, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980), pp. 38, no. 19 (ill.); 68.\n\nPossibly Kate Flint, ed., Impressionists in England: The Critical Reception (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), pp. 58, 361.\n\nAnne Distel, \u201cRenoir\u2019s Collector: The P\u00e2tissier, the Priest and the Prince,\u201d in Hayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985), p. 27, n. 22.\n\nAnne Distel, \u201cLes amateurs de Renoir: Le prince, le pr\u00eatre et le p\u00e2tissier,\u201d in Hayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1985), p. 32, n. 22.\n\nHayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985), pp. 80, cat. 35 (ill.); 208, cat. 35 (ill.); 256.\n\nHayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1985), pp. 136\u2013137, cat. 34 (ill.).\n\nDenys Sutton, \u201cRenoir\u2019s Kingdom,\u201d Apollo 121, 278 (Apr. 1985), pp. 244; 245, pl. 10.\n\nCharles S. Moffett, ed., with the assistance of Ruth Berson, Barbara Lee Williams, and Fronia E. Wissman, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874\u20131886, exh. cat. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986), pp. 164.\n\nPhillippe Ari\u00e8s and Georges Duby, eds., Histoire de la vie priv\u00e9e: De la R\u00e9volution \u00e0 la Grande Guerre, vol. 4 (\u00c9d. du Seuil, 1987), p. 487 (ill.). Translated by Arthur Goldhammer as A History of Private Life: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War, vol. 4 (Belknap Press\/Harvard University Press, 1990), p. 532 (ill.).\n\nRichard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abrams, 1987), pp. 31, 33 (ill.), 119.\n\nHorst Keller, Auguste Renoir (Bruckmann, 1987), pp. 56, fig. 41; 165.\n\nMinistry of Culture; State Hermitage Museum; Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Art Institute of Chicago, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: Shedevry frantsuzskoi zhivopisi XIX\u2013nachala XX veka, iz Muzeia Metropoliten v N\u2019iu-Iorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Masterpieces of French painting of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago], trans. from English by Iu. A. Kleiner and A. A. Zhukov, exh. cat. (Avrora, 1988), cat. 20.\n\nRobert Trachtenberg, \u201cGreat Art Where You Least Expect It: The Pioneers of Hollywood Art Colleting,\u201d Spy (Sept. 1988), pp. 97\u201398.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee (Art Institute of Chicago\/New York Graphic Society Books\/Little, Brown, 1988), pp. 9, 56 (ill.).\n\nBirger Carlstr\u00f6m, Hide-and-Seek: Text and Picture in the Pictures; Impressionists from Turner from [sic] Gainsborough (Carlstr\u00f6m, 1989), pp. 42; 164, pl. 36; 165, pl. 36.\n\nRaffaele De Grada, Renoir (Giorgio Mondadori, 1989), p. 48, pl. 27.\n\nSophie Monneret, Renoir, Profils de l\u2019art (Ch\u00eane, 1989), pp. 64\u201365, fig. 3.\n\nViolette de Mazia, \u201cForm and Matter: The Form of Renoir\u2019s Color,\u201d Vistas (V.O.L.N.\/Barnes Foundation) 5, 2 (1991), pp. 15; pl. 38.\n\nM. Therese Southgate, \u201cThe Cover,\u201d JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 270, 18 (Nov. 10, 1993), front cover (ill.), p. 2145.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago, with an introduction by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abbeville, 1993), p. 56 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago and Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994), pp. 50\u201351, cat. 6 (ill.).\n\nAnne Distel, Douglas Druick, Gloria Groom, and Rodolphe Rapetti, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\/Art Institute of Chicago\/Abbeville, 1995), p. 193, fig. 1. Translated into French by Jeanne Bouniort as Gustave Caillebotte: 1848\u20131894, exh. cat. (R\u00e9union des Mus\u00e9es Nationaux, 1994), p. 231, fig. 1.\n\nGerhard Gruitrooy, Renoir: A Master of Impressionism (Todtri, 1994), p. 29 (ill.).\n\nRuth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874\u20131886; Documentation, vol. 2, Exhibited Works (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco\/University of Washington Press, 1996), pp. 44, 63 (ill.).\n\nMichael Shapiro, ed., Rings: Five Passions in World Art, exh. cat. (High Museum of Art\/Abrams, 1996), pp. 298\u201399 (ill.).\n\nKarin Sagner-D\u00fcchting, Renoir: Paris and the Belle \u00c9poque, trans. Fiona Elliott (Prestel, 1996), p. 72 (ill.).\n\nDouglas W. Druick, Renoir, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago\/Abrams, 1997), pp. 6; 15 (detail); 28; 30; 46; 84, pl. 3; 109.\n\nCharlotte Nalle Eyerman, \u201cThe Composition of Femininity: The Significance of the \u2018Woman at the Piano\u2019 Motif in Nineteenth-Century French Culture from Daumier to Renoir\u201d (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1997), pp. 143; 245, fig. 58.\n\nJames Elkins, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity (Routledge, 1999), opp. p. 1, pl. 1; pp. xviii; 1; 4; 5, pl. 3; 8\u20139; 49; 78; 228.\n\nRenaud Temperini, \u201cEstetiche della modernit\u00e0,\u201d in La pittura Francese, vol. 3, ed. Pierre Rosenberg, trans. Cosima Campagnolo, Valentina Palombi, and Stefano Salpietro (Electra, 1999), pp. 816, fig. 832; 818. \n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago\/Hudson Hills, 2000), pp. 9, 52 (ill.).\n\nPatrick Shaw Cable, \u201cQuestions of Work, Class, Gender, and Style in the Art and Life of Gustave Caillebotte\u201d (Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 2000), pp. 47; 258, fig. 15.\n\nBridgestone Museum of Art and Nagoya City Art Museum, Renoir: From Outsider to Old Master, 1870\u20131892, exh. cat. (Bridgestone Museum of Art\/Nagoya City Art Museum\/Chunichi Shimbun, 2001), p. 84, fig. 40.\n\nGilles N\u00e9ret, Renoir: Painter of Happiness, 1841\u20131919, trans. Josephine Bacon (Taschen, 2001), pp. 84\u201385 (ill); 110.\n\nMichael Marrinan, \u201cCaillebotte as Professional Painter: From Studio to the Public Eye,\u201d in Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris, ed. Norma Broude (Rutgers University Press, 2002), pp. 50; 51, fig. 21.\n\nSylvie Patin, L\u2019impressionisme (Biblioth\u00e8que des Arts, 2002), pp. 119; 120\u201321, fig. 88.\n\nJohn House, Impressionism: Paint and Politics (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 56, 57, pl. 44.\n\nAviva Burnstock, Klaas Jan van den Berg, and John House, \u201cPainting Techniques of Pierre-Auguste Renoir: 1868\u20131919,\u201d Art Matters: Netherlandish Technical Studies in Art 3 (2005), pp. 51, 52, 54.\n\nAnn Dumas, \u201cRenoir and the Feminine Ideal: An Introduction to Renoir\u2019s Women,\u201d in Ann Dumas and John Collins, Renoir\u2019s Women, exh. cat. (Columbus Museum of Art\/Merrell, 2005), pp. 26; 29, fig. 18.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, \u201cGauguin\u2019s Paintings in the Impressionist Exhibition of 1882,\u201d in Richard R. Brettell and Anne-Brigitte Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism, exh. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum\/Ordrupgaard, 2005), pp. 158; 159, fig. 123.\n\nKyoko Kagawa, Runowaru [Pierre-Auguste Renoir], Seiyo kaiga no kyosho [Great masters of Western art] 4 (Shogakukan, 2006), p. 25 (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. 403, cat. 372 (ill.).\n\nGloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Kimbell Art Museum, 2008), pp. 16 (ill.); 66\u201367, cat. 24 (ill.); 69. Simultaneously published as Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago\/Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 16 (ill.); 66\u201367, cat. 24 (ill.); 69.\n\nGloria Groom, \u201cThe Social Network of Fashion,\u201d in Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Metropolitan Museum of Art\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\/Yale University Press, 2012), p. 35.\n\nGloria Groom, \u201cLes r\u00e9seaux mondains de la mode,\u201d in L\u2019impressionnisme et la mode, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\/Skira Flammarion, 2012), p. 77.\n\nGloria Groom, ed., Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Metropolitan Museum of Art\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\/Yale University Press, 2012), p. 289, cat. 55 (ill.).\n\nGloria Groom, ed., L\u2019Impressionnisme et la mode, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\/Skira Flammarion, 2012), p. 301, cat. 100.\n\nJustine de Young, \u201cFashion and Intimate Portraits,\u201d in Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago\/Metropolitan Museum of Art\/Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\/Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 120; 121, cat. 55 (ill.).\n\nJustine de Young, \u201cLa mode en portraits intimes,\u201d in L\u2019impressionnisme et la mode, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay\/Skira Flammarion, 2012), pp. 150; 158, cat. 100 (ill.).\n\nJanet Whitmore, \u201cWhitmore Reviews: Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity,\u201d Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, 1 (Spring 2014), p. 20, fig. 8.\n\n\u201cCat. 3: Woman at the Piano, 1875\/76,\u201d in Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), <a href=\"https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/renoir\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/138973\">https:\/\/publications.artic.edu\/renoir\/reader\/paintingsanddrawings\/section\/138973<\/a>.\n\nGuillermo Solano, ed., Renoir: Intimacy, exh. cat. (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2016), pp. 70, 98-99, cat. 15 (ill).","exhibition_history":"Paris, 11, rue Le Peletier, 2e exposition de peinture [second Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1876, cat. 219, as Femme au Piano. Appartient \u00e0 M. Poupin.\n\nPossibly London, Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of \u201cLa soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des impressionnistes,\u201d Apr.\u2013July 1883, cat. 13, as Femme au piano.\n\nNew York, Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir, Apr. 1900, cat. 39, as Jeune Femme au Piano.\n\nNew York, Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Nov. 14\u2013Dec. 5, 1908, cat. 5, as Jeune femme au piano, 1878.\n\nNew York, Durand-Ruel, 1911.\n\nPossibly New York, Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 14\u2013Mar. 16, 1912, cat. 19, as Fillette en robe bleue.\n\nRenaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints, Summer 1931, July 2\u2013Aug. 16, 1931, cat. 73.\n\nRenaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, Oct. 9\u201330, 1932, cat. 18.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23\u2013Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 337 (ill.).\n\nPhiladelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Manet and Renoir, Nov. 29, 1933\u2013Jan. 1, 1934, no cat. no.\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, \u201cA Century of Progress\u201d: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1\u2013Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 226.\n\nToledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 1934, cat. 16.\n\nNew York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings, May 18\u2013Sept. 12, 1937, cat. 27 (ill.).\n\nToledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 7\u2013Dec. 12, 1937, cat. 24 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Ryerson Bequest: Paintings, Oriental and Decorative Arts, Jan. 26\u201331, 1938, no cat.\nSan Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25\u2013Sept. 29, 1940, cat. 292 (ill.).\n\nSan Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, Special Loans of Old Masters and Contemporary Paintings from the San Francisco Exposition and Los Angeles County Fair, Oct. 12\u2013Nov. 2, 1940, no cat.\n\nNew York, Duveen Galleries, Renoir: Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1841\u20131941; For the Benefit of the Free French Relief Committee, Nov. 8\u2013Dec. 6, 1941, cat. 14 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 3\u2013Apr. 1, 1973, cat. 20 (ill.).\n\nNew York, Wildenstein, Renoir: The Gentle Rebel; A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Association for Mentally Ill Children, Oct. 24\u2013Nov. 30, 1974, cat. 10 (ill.).\n\nArt Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19\u2013Aug. 8, 1976, no cat.\n\nTokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Exposition Renoir, Sept. 26\u2013Nov. 6, 1979, cat. 16 (ill.); Kyoto Municipal Museum, Nov. 10\u2013Dec. 9, 1979.\n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse-Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27\u2013Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 19 (ill.).\n\nLondon, Hayward Gallery, Renoir, Jan. 30\u2013Apr. 21, 1985, cat. 35 (ill.); Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, May 14\u2013Sept. 2, 1985, cat. 34 (ill.); Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 9, 1985\u2013Jan. 5, 1986.\n\nLeningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzsko\u012d zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-\u012corke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 20; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.\n\nNagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20\u2013May 29, 1994, cat. 6 (ill.); Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10\u2013July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6\u2013Sept. 25, 1994.\n\nAtlanta, High Museum of Art, Rings: Five Passions in World Art, July 4\u2013Sept. 29, 1996, no cat. no.\n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 24 (ill.).\n\nMus\u00e9e d\u2019Orsay, Paris, L\u2019impressionnisme et la mode, Sept. 25, 2012\u2013Jan. 20, 2013, cat. 100; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 26\u2013May 27, 2013, cat. 55, as Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity; Art Institute of Chicago, June 26\u2013Sept. 29, 2013.\n\nMadrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Renoir: Intimacy, Oct. 18, 2016-Jan. 22, 2017, cat. 15 (ill.).","provenance_text":"Paul-Victor Poupin, Paris, by Apr. 1876 [per Catalogue de la 2e exposition de peinture, exh. cat. (Alcan-L\u00e9vy, 1876), p. 21, cat. 219, which lists Femme au piano as \u201cappartient \u00e0 M. Poupin\u201d]. Possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris, by Apr. 1883 [per exhibition catalogue, cat. 13 is listed as Femme au piano with an asking price of \u00a3100, however Durand-Ruel Archives cannot confirm that the Art Institute\u2019s painting was the one exhibited in London in April\u2013July 1883; Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago: \u201cIl est possible qu\u2019il s\u2019agisse du m\u00eame tableau mais nous n\u2019avons aucun document nous le prouvant\u201d]. Sold (possibly by the artist) to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Sept. 8, 1886, for 1,200 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1884\u201390 (no. 1200, as La Femme au piano), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]. Possibly sold at Moore\u2019s Art Galleries, New York, May 6, 1887, lot 93, for $675 [per Dauberville and Dauberville 2007. See also Moore\u2019s Art Galleries, New York, The Durand-Ruel Collection of French Paintings, sale cat. (Moore\u2019s Art Galleries, May 5\u20136, 1887), p. 28, lot 93. However, according to the Durand-Ruel Archives, \u201cLe tableau n\u2019a pas \u00e9t\u00e9 vendu en 1887 lors de la vente \u00e0 la \u2018Moore\u2019s Art Galleries\u2019: il s\u2019agissait d\u2019une vente fictive (aucun tableau n\u2019a \u00e9t\u00e9 vendu) destin\u00e9e \u00e0 faire de la publicit\u00e9 pour les tableaux apport\u00e9s par Durand-Ruel \u00e0 New York.\u201d See Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]. Durand-Ruel, New York, by Dec. 16, 1911. [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1888\u201393 (no. 112, as Jeune femme au piano), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 16, 1911, for $16,000. 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