Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Washerwomen
1887
Physical Qualities
Watercolor over graphite, Sheet: 273 x 198 mm. (10 3/4 x 7 13/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.283
Two women kneeling beside a river; a third woman stands behind them, rolling up her sleeve; child stands at far right.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1950; Etta Cone (1870-1949), Baltimore, 1946; Fine Arts Associates, New York; André Marie Louis Mellerio (1862-1943), Paris.
Jay McKean Fisher, William R. Johnston and Cheryl K. Snay, 'The Essence of Line: French Drawings from Ingres to Degas,' organized by The Walters Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art, circulated to The Walters Art Museum June 19, 2005 - September 11, 2005, The Birmingham Museum of Art February 9, 2006 - May 4, 2006, Tacoma Art Museum June 9, 2006 - September 7, 2006.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection', June 7-Aug. 27, 1995; circulated to Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 3, 1996-Jan. 26, 1997; Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 25-April 20, 1997; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 18-July 13, 1997.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 38, no. 128.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', fall 1949, p. 21.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection', June 7-Aug. 27, 1995; circulated to Cleveland Museum of Art, Dec. 3, 1996-Jan. 26, 1997; Seattle Art Museum, Feb. 25-April 20, 1997; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 18-July 13, 1997.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'From Ingres to Gauguin', Nov.-Dec. 1951, p. 38, no. 128.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 'Selections from the Cone Collection', fall 1949, p. 21.
Bernard Pharisien, "Renoir de vigne en vin à Essoyes," Bar-sur-Aube: Imprimerie Némont, 2012, p. 16, repr. color on p. 17.
Emmanuelle Amoit-Saulnier, "Renoir: pastels, crayons, sanguines, aquarelles," Paris: Hazan, 2009, illus. p. 47 and 125.
Fisher, Jay McKean, et al. The Essence of Line: French drawings from Ingres to Degas. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005, p. 320-23, ill.
Brenda Richardson, Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1985, p. 194.
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection, Baltimore, 1967, p. 68, no. 97 (see also 1955 edition, p. 39, no. 102).
The Baltimore Museum of Art News October 1949, p. 21, no. 82.
John Rewald, Renoir Drawings, New York: H. Bittner & Company, 1946, p. 22, no. 64.
Inscribed: by later hand, upper right in graphite: "Dessin de Renoir"
Markings: CM: AMO (André Marie Louis Mellerio, 1862-1943, Lugt Suppl. 153a)
