Coco Eating His Soup (Coco mangeant sa soupe)
Artist
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
(French, 1841–1919)
Date1905
Mediumoil on canvas
Dimensionscanvas: 45.7 x 38.1 cm (18 x 15 in.)
frame: 64.5 × 57.2 × 7.6 cm (25 3/8 × 22 1/2 × 3 in.)
frame: 64.5 × 57.2 × 7.6 cm (25 3/8 × 22 1/2 × 3 in.)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift from the Chapin and Mary Alexander Riley Collection
Object number1991.238
Label TextCoco was the youngest of Renoir's three sons and appears here at the age of about four. A recent cleaning by paintings conservator Rita Albertson restored the work’s bright colors and lively handling of paint, which had been obscured by an old layer of varnish that had become dull over time.ProvenanceAmbroise Vollard, Paris; private collection, Los Angeles, CA; with Van Diemer-Lilienfeld Galleries, New York, NY, by 1949; purchased Mr. and Mrs. Chapin Riley, Los Angeles, CA, 1953; partial gift (one-third title) to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 1991; final gift (two-thirds title) to the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, 1997.On View
Not on view
Philippe Jacques van Bree
1816
