4. The Renoir pastel painting has 5 mediums i.e. (crayon, pastel, pencil, watercolor, soft pastel) showing Renoir’s wife at age 19 and couple months pregnant posing in the studio and is an important missing piece to the complex creative process that led to the Renoir’s masterpiece, The Bathers.
5. The Fogg Bather study by Renoir at Harvard University was photographed un-framed for the first time in 2004, at my request, and shows trails of defects in the paper from the 19th century manufacturing making the paper Renoir used unique and proved that the paper for Renoir’s Pastel came from the same roll of paper. Please note a close up of the coating and grain is still in the process of being taken and delivered by Harvard.
6. The experts in the Netherlands, who tested the Renoir pastel, only test items they have good reason believe to be authentic (i. e. Rembrandt, Van Gogh, etc.) and usually for museums. McCrone Associates tested the Renoir pastel three times in the period of a year confirming that it was a pastel – not a print or a doctored photograph.
7. Odd framing line found going thru hands (See examples) is also found in other Renoir drawings as characteristic of the cropping and framing of the pictures. And do not intersect at same location seen in d'Orsay expanded blowup study of the three models together.
8. Note, the pastel is in need of a cleaning if possible, from dust and pastel vibration of black pigment falling off edges onto center.
9. Pigment testing found over the years Lithopone pigment migrated from vibration on to glass where large areas of white drapery is found in painting. Lithopone is a white pigment introduced in 1868 and with which Renoir experimented, was in large quantities in the white areas of the Renoir pastel and no evidence the Lithopone was used as a filler. |
