RENOIR, Pierre-Auguste

Limoges, Haute-Vienne 1841 - Cagnes-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes 1919

Maker: Valsuani

Vénus Victrix (buste)

Vénus Victrix (bust)

1915

bronze

bust

Dimensions (HxWxD): 22 ³⁄₄ x 19 x 14 in.

signed under shoulder: Renoir 1915

Credit Line: The Kreeger Museum

Photo credit: courtesy, The Kreeger Museum, Washington D.C.

© Artist : public domain

Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, The Kreeger Museum

www.kreegermuseum.org

Provenance

• 1973, Acquired from Parke-Bernet, New York
• 1973-1994, David (1909-1990) and Carmen (1910-2003) Kreeger Collection, Washington
• 1994, Opening of the Kreeger Museum, Washington

Bibliography

• Museum's website, 17 February 2016
• 1976 Sharpe
  The Collections of Mr. and Mrs. David Lloyd Kreeger, Edited by Margy P. Sharpe, Introductions by Charles W. Millard, J. Carter Brown, Richard L. Feigen, Warren M. Robbins, Washington, 1976, p. 228, repr.

Exhibitions

• 1973 New York
  Exhibition for the sale, October 19, 1973, Parke-Bernet, New York, cat. no. 106

Related works

• 1976 Sharpe, p. 228:
  The terracotta original of this work was made by Renoir in 1915. This bronze, one of an edition of ten, was cast at the Valsuani foundry by the lost-wax (cire perdue) method, under the supervision of the artist's grandson, Paul Renoir.

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