Original wash and crayon lithograph printed from two stones in dark grey and soft black inks on light creamy wove paper.
20 5/8 x 15 7/8 inches
1899
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In excellent condition printed on a full sheet.
Mademoiselle Dieterle was an actress who was particularly attractive to Renoir. He used her as his model for a number of drawings and pastels produced at the same time as this lithograph.
Some writers consider this the most beautiful of all Renoir's prints and the rarest of his large lithographs. Unlike the versions of “Le chapeau épinglé,” for example, which were printed with the assistance of Auguste Clot in editions of 200 or more, this lithograph was issued in an edition of only 100 for the very important and extremely rare album Germinal. The album was comprised of twenty graphic works, including original graphic works by Pierre Bonnard, Mauirice Denis, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Felix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard, with facsimiles of works by Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas and a preface by Gustave Geffroy.
Some writers consider this the most beautiful of all Renoir's prints and the rarest of his large lithographs. Unlike the versions of “Le chapeau épinglé,” for example, which were printed with the assistance of Auguste Clot in editions of 200 or more, this lithograph was issued in an edition of only 100 for the very important and extremely rare album Germinal. The album was comprised of twenty graphic works, including original graphic works by Pierre Bonnard, Mauirice Denis, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Felix Vallotton and Edouard Vuillard, with facsimiles of works by Vincent van Gogh and Edgar Degas and a preface by Gustave Geffroy.
Signed on the stone lower right Renoir
From the edition of 100. Commissioned by Julius Meier-Graefe, La Maison Moderne, Paris, for publication in the album Germinal, 1899.
