Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso)

c. 1883

Dating

Approximate date range

Held at

Art Institute of Chicago

Medium

Charcoal, with graphite and touches of stumping and erasure (recto), and graphite (verso) on ivory wove paper

Dimensions

36.2 × 31 cm (14 5/16 × 12 1/4 in.)

Collection no.

1943.520

Attribution

By the artist

Image rights

CC0 1.0License details

Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Woman Seated in a Chair (recto); Woman in a Chair, Seen from the Back (verso), c. 1883. Inventory 1943.520. Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Art Institute of Chicago. Collection credit: Samuel P. Avery Fund. CC0 1.0 (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113275. Full-frame proportional resize and JPEG compression. The photograph shows the complete charcoal-bearing recto with the seated woman looking back. The graphite view of a woman from behind on the verso is not shown.