Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), Femme lisant

Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919)
Femme lisant
signed 'Renoir.' (upper right)
oil on canvas
16 5/8 x 13 ½ in. (42.4 x 34.3 cm.)
Painted in 1891

Provenance

Henry Bernstein, Paris.
Galerie Bernheim-Jeune et Cie., Paris (acquired from the above, 26 February 1910).
Henry Bernstein, Paris (acquired from the above, 21 March 1910); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 8 June 1911, lot 20.
Galerie Durand Ruel et Cie., Paris and Paul Cassirer, Berlin (acquired at the above sale).
Durand-Ruel Galleries Inc., New York (acquired from the above, October 1911).
Ellen H. Henderson, New Orleans (acquired from the above, 10 November 1913).
Hunt and Jeanne Henderson, New Orleans (by bequest from the above, 1935).
By descent from the above to the present owners.

PROPERTY FORMERLY IN THE COLLECTION OF HUNT HENDERSON, NEW ORLEANS