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Reclining female nude

Maker

(etcher)
1841-1919

(artist)
1841-1919

Title

Reclining female nude

Date of Production

1906

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Height: 13.4 cm
Width: 19.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1935.RF.1

Mode of Acquisition

Roger Eliot Fry, gift, 1935

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

Keywords

Label Text

Despite his small output, Renoir was an innovative Impressionist printmaker, regularly returning to the same motif, each time employing different techniques and tonal effects in his drive for perfection. This image is the third of three versions (the first two facing right) that he worked up. Starting with an unadorned outline, he developed the design with a succession of delicately hatched marks, seen here, describing the texture of the wall and indentations made by the woman’s head and arm on the soft pillow.

Provenance

Gift of the Roger Fry Trustees, 1935

Exhibition History

Renoir - Tradition and Innovation, National Art Center, Tokyo, 20/01/2010-05/04/2010; National Museum of Art, Osaka, 17/04/2010-27/06/2010

Special Display - Impressionist Prints, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 13/06/2008-13/10/2008

Literature

Renoir - Tradition and Innovation, Osaka and Tokyo, 2010

Inscriptions

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right & recto : signed in the plate : Renoir

Inscription: inscription : printed : upper right & recto : embossed monogram in circle :

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