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Young Woman Arranging Her Earring

Young Woman Arranging Her Earring

1905
(French, 1841–1919)
Framed: 76.5 x 67.5 x 10 cm (30 1/8 x 26 9/16 x 3 15/16 in.); Unframed: 55.3 x 46.4 cm (21 3/4 x 18 1/4 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

The model for this painting is Gabrielle Renard—a housekeeper, nursemaid, studio assistant, and frequent model to Renoir.

Description

During his later years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir moved away from pure Impressionism toward a classicizing style featuring strong, monumental figures of substantial weight and volume. This depiction of a woman arranging her earrings, a superb example of that trend in the artist's late work, may have been inspired by one of the figures in Eugène Delacroix’s Women of Algiers in their Apartment (Musée du Louvre, Paris).
  • Bought from the artist by Durand-Ruel, Paris (stock number 8306) on 24 October 1906.
    Sold to Durand-Ruel, New York (stock number 3224), 19 October 1908.
    Sold to Mrs. G. Mather, 5 April 1911.
    William G. Mather, Cleveland. Bequeathed to the CMA on 26 July 1951.
  • “Lists of Objects in the Exhibition.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 9 (1929): 159–75. Mentioned: p. 162 www.jstor.org
    Cleveland Museum of Art, “Recent Acquisitions Press Release,” September 26, 1951, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 177 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 177 archive.org
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 219 archive.org
    Argencourt, Louise d', and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: P. 536-537, Vol. II, no. 187
    Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art: Picture Book No. 4 . [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1952. archive.org
  • Renoir: Promise of Happiness. Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (Republic of) (organizer) (May 28-September 13, 2009).
    Seoul Museum of Art (5/28/2009 - 9/13/2009): "Renoir: Promise of Happiness"
    Los Angeles County Museum; San Francisco Museum of Art. Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919: Paintings, Drawings, Prints, and Sculptures (1955), no. 66, fig. 66.
    New York, Paul Rosenberg & Co. Loan Exhibition-The Last Twenty Years of Renoir's Life (1954), no. 3 (repr.).
    Columbus (Ohio) Gallery of Fine Arts. Masterpieces of Painting. Treasures of Five Centuries (1950), Bulletin 21 (Fall 1950): no. 29 (repr.).
    Saginaw (Mich.) Museum. Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting (1948-49), no. 26, lent by Mr. and Mrs. William Gwinn Mather, Cleveland (repr.).
    New York, Duveen Galleries. Centennial Loan Exhibition 1841-1941: Renoir (1941), no. 73, 95 (repr.).
    New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art. Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings (1937), no. 57 (repr.).
    CMA. Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art (1936), no. 308.
    CMA. French Art since 1800 (1929), CMA Bulletin 16 (1929): 162.
    CMA. Fifty Years of French Art (1926), no cat., lent by William G. Mather.
    CMA. Exhibition of Paintings-Édouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot (1924-25), no cat., lent by W. G. Mather.
    CMA. French Paintings of the Later XIX Century (1921), no cat., lent by William G. Mather.
    New York, Durand-Ruel. Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1908), no. 40, Jeune fille arrangeant ses boucles d'oreille, 1906.
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