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Jeune fille lisant, c. 1890 Signed 'Renoir' upper left Oil on canvas 16 ⅛ x 12 ¾ in, 41 x 32.4 cm Provenance Georges Bernheim, Paris Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris (acquired from the above on 14 November 1908) Charles Maniez, Valenciennes (acquired from the above on 11 December 1909) Galerie Georges Petit, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 2 December 1918, lot 27 Etienne Bignou, Paris Alex Reid & Lefevre, London Max Kaganovitch, Paris (from 1938 and thence by descent) (on loan) Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich Private Collection, Canada (by descent from the above in c. 1978) Private Collection, Switzerland Exhibitions Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Oeuvres choisies (des 19ème et 20ème siècles), May – June 1938, no. 34 Paris, Galerie Max Kaganovitch, Oeuvres choisies du XIXe siècle, 22 May – 5 July 1950, no. 30 (titled Liseuse and Portrait de jeune fille) Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Renoir, 1 November – 4 December 1983, no. 25, p. 73, illus. (titled Liseuse) (travelled to: Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefectural Museum of Art, 7 December – 25 December 1983; Okayama, Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, 14 January – 12 February 1984; Osaka, Nabio Museum, 17 February – 18 March 1984) Literature G. Lecomte, 'L'oeuvre de Renoir', L'art et les artistes: Revue mensuelle d'art ancien et moderne, No. IV, 1920, p. 148, illus. (titled Etude de jeune fille) A. Vollard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir: Paintings, pastels and drawings, San Francisco, 1989, no. 82, p. 21, illus. (titled Tete de fillette) G. P. Dauberville and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Vol. II, Paris, 2009, no. 1185, p. 312, illus. This work is accompanied by a letter of attestation from the Wildenstein Plattner Institute signed by Elizabeth Gorayeb, under number 23.02.09 / 21157 and dated 14 February 2023 Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1841-1919 6