Odalisque (An Algerian Woman)

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Odalisque (An Algerian Woman): Pierre-Auguste Renoir

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir Oil Painting - Odalisque (An Algerian Woman)

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Work Overview: Odalisque (An Algerian Woman)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Date: 1870
Style: Orientalism
Period: Association with Impressionists
Genre: portrait
Media: oil, canvas
69.2 x 122.6 cm (27 1/4 x 48 1/4 in.)

This picture was painted in the Oriental style which was in fashion since Delacroix's Women of Algiers. The model for the painting was Lise Tréhot, the artist's mistress.

PROVENANCE
Anonymous collection, Paris.[1] (Galerie Heinemann, Munich) from 1913; sold 1916 to Hans Wendland [b. 1880]. [2] (Dr. Gottlieb Friedrich Reber [1880-1959], Basel); sold to (Paul Rosenberg & Co., London, New York, and Paris); [3] sold 1928 to (Hugo Perls, New York); [4] from 1931 with (Paul Rosenberg & Co., London, New York and Paris); sold 1933 to Chester Dale [1882-1963], New York; bequest 1963 to NGA.

[1] Letter from Paul Rosenberg to Chester Dale, dated 31 March 1942, in which Rosenberg described having seen the picture in an apartment in Paris before 1914 (copy NGA curatorial files).

[2] Galerie Heinemann records, no. 12082 (copies NGA curatorial files).

[3] Letter from Paul Rosenberg to Chester Dale, dated 31 March 1942, in which Rosenberg explains that Reber was an intermediary for a German private collection. This is likely Wendland, who bought the painting in 1916. The painting is included in the list of Reber's collection compiled by Peter Kropmanns and Uwe Fleckner, "Von Kontinentaler Bedeutung: Gottlieb Freidrich Reber und seine Sammlungen," in Die Moderne und ihre Sammler (Berlin, 2001), p 392, but was not lent by Reber to any known exhibitions of his collection.

EXHIBITION HISTORY
1870 Salon of 1870, Paris, no. 2406 as Femme d'Alger.
1888 Exposition, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1888, no. 14 as Femme d'Alger
1892 Exposition A. Renoir, Galeries Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1892, no. 27 as Femme d'Alger
1900 Possibly Exposition A. Renoir, Galeries Bernheim Jeune et Fils, Paris, 1900, no. 49 as Femme algérienne.
1904 Possibly Universal Exposition, St. Louis, 1904, no. 463a.
1913 L'Art français du XIXe siècle, Munich, 1913, repro. no. 190
1931 Probably Exposition coloniale internationale, Grand Palais, Paris, 1931.
1965 The Chester Dale Bequest, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1965, unnumbered checklist.
1984 The Orientalists: Delacroix to Matisse, The Allure of North Africa and the Near East, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1984, no. 106, repro.
2010 From Impressionism to Modernism: The Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, January 2010-January 2012, unnumbered catalogue, repro.

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