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<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/auguste-renoir-1828" aria-label="More by Auguste Renoir" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Auguste Renoir</a>
Head a Girl
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
body
children
girl
head / face
individuals: female
people
portraits
painting oil paint canvas
5 March 1997
5 March 1997
1997-03-05
National Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk
1997-03-05
Long Loan to the National Gallery
Loan-out
8 February 2014 – 20 April 2014
2014-04-20
8 February 2014 – 20 April 2014
2014-04-20
2014-02-08
The Lightbox (Woking, UK)
http://www.thelightbox.org/
2014-02-08
Renoir in Britain
Loan-out
Head of a Girl
support: 270 × 200 mm
frame: 385 × 308 × 51 mm
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941
<strong>Auguste Renoir</strong> 1841-1919
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<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/renoir-head-of-a-girl-n05293" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>N05293</span></a> <strong>Head of a Girl</strong> 1898
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Inscribed 'Renoir' b.r.<br/>
Oil on canvas, 10 5/8 x 7 7/8 (27 x 20)<br/>
Bequeathed by Sir Hugh Walpole 1941<br/>
<em>Prov:</em> With Durand-Ruel, Paris (purchased from the artist 1901); with Howard Putzell, Los Angeles, 1936; Sir Hugh Walpole, London<br/>
<em>Exh:</em> <em>Hugh Walpole's Collection</em>, French Gallery, London, May-June 1937 (40); <em>The Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</em>, National Gallery, London, April-May 1942 (97); <em>A Selection from the Tate Gallery's Wartime Acquisitions</em>, CEMA touring exhibition, September 1942-September 1943 (70)<br/>
<em>Repr:</em> <em>Studio</em>, CXXIV, 1942, p.15
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This picture has sometimes been entitled 'Head of a Little Servant Girl', though in the Durand-Ruel records it appears simply as 'Bust of a Woman, 1898'. Renoir often used his servant girls as models in his later years, but this girl looks rather young to be in service.
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<strong>Published in:</strong><br/>
Ronald Alley, <em>Catalogue of the Tate Gallery's Collection of Modern Art other than Works by British Artists</em>, Tate Gallery and Sotheby Parke-Bernet, London 1981, pp.624-5, reproduced p.624


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Catalogue entry
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CATALOGUE_ENTRY
body children girl head / face individuals: female people portraits