Two Women Walking to the Right

Auguste Renoir (in circa 1890)

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Faivre asked

I'm french. A friend of mine gave me a reproduction of this study, but the name is not the same; it is called " deux jeunes filles se promenant" ( two Young girls walking" ). I would like to know what is the real title of this drawing. Thank you !
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen answered

Hello,

The drawing served as a prepatory study for a painting called ‘Trois jeunes filles en promenade’. As the drawing was not given a title by Renoir, there is no original title of this artwork. The title ‘Two women walking to the right’ was given by a curator of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.

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Jephta

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Renoir initially preferred to make sketches and pastels as preparatory studies for his paintings. It was only after 1880, when line began to play a greater role in his paintings, that he focussed more on drawing. This is a study for a painting from 1890 with three women taking a walk: the daughter of the writer Paul Alexis and two of Renoir’s neighbours in Montmartre.

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Title	Two Women Walking to the Right
Material and technique	Black chalk and pastel
Object type	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Location	This object is in storage

Dimensions	Height 477 mm Width 310 mm
Artists	Tekenaar: Auguste Renoir
Accession number	F II 23 (PK)
Credits	Bruikleen / Loan: Stichting Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 1940 (voormalige collectie / former collection Koenigs)
Department	Drawings & Prints
Acquisition date	1940
Age artist	Between 34 and 59 years old
Collector	Collector / Franz Koenigs
Exhibitions	Impressionisme: Een schone kijk (1992) De Collectie Twee - wissel I, Prenten & Tekeningen (2009) Selectie Impressionisten van Manet tot Cézanne (2017)
External exhibitions	Impressionism and Post Impressionism on paper: Drawings from Manet to Van Gogh (2012)
Material	Laid paper > Laid finished paper > Paper > Vegetable material > Organic material > Material > Material and technique Black chalk > Chalk > Artist's material > Material > Material and technique Pastel drawing > Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Object	Drawing > Two-dimensional object > Art object
Geographical origin	France > Western Europe > Europe

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Auguste Renoir

Limoges 1841 - Cagnes 1919

From 1861, Pierre Auguste Renoir took lessons at the studio of Gleyre, where he met Monet, Sisley and Bazille. In the 1860s Renoir painted in the woods of...

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