Woman at the Piano

1875/76

Pierre-Auguste Renoir
French, 1841-1919

Status: On View, Gallery 201
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Title: Woman at the Piano
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1875–1876
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed at lower left: Renoir
Dimensions: 93 × 74 cm (36 9/16 × 29 1/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
Reference Number: 1937.1025
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Possibly Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell/Société des Impressionnistes, Catalogue of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of “La société des impressionnistes,” exh. cat. (Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, 1883), p. 9, cat. 13.
Possibly unsigned review of Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of “La société des impressionnistes,” Standard, Apr. 25, 1883, p. 2.
“Good Prices Realized. Close of the Durand-Ruel Sale of Paintings,” New York Times, May 7, 1887, p. 5.
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“Art Notes and News,” New York Times, Apr. 8, 1900, p. 9.
Durand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, 1908), no. 5.
Possibly Durand-Ruel, New York, Exhibition of Paintings by Renoir, exh. cat. (Durand-Ruel, 1912), cat. 19.
“Renoir at Durand-Ruel’s,” American Art News 10, 19 (Feb. 17, 1912), pp. 2, 9 (ill.).
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints, Summer 1931, exh. cat. (Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1931), cat. 73.
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago Bulletin (Spring and Summer 1931), p. 33 (ill.).
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, exh. cat. (Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, 1932), cat. 18.
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Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, exh. cat. (Toledo Museum of Art, 1934), cat. 16.
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Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago, 1973), pp. 26; 68–69, cat. 20 (ill.); 74; 138; 210; 211; 214.
Wildenstein, Renoir: The Gentle Rebel; A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Association for Mentally Ill Children, with a foreword by François Daulte, exh. cat. (Wildenstein, 1974), cat. 10 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, 100 Masterpieces (Art Institute of Chicago, 1978), pp. 22; 98–99, pl. 55.
Patricia Erens, Masterpieces: Famous Chicagoans and Their Paintings (Chicago Review, 1979), p. 36.
J. Patrice Marandel, The Art Institute of Chicago: Favorite Impressionist Paintings (Crown, 1979), pp. 68–69 (ill.).
Isetan Museum of Art and Kyoto Municipal Museum, Exposition Renoir, exh. cat. (Isetan Museum of Art/Kyoto Municipal Museum/Yomiuri Shimbun Sha, 1979), cat. 16 (ill.).
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Musée Toulouse-Lautrec and Art Institute of Chicago, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, exh. cat. (Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, 1980), pp. 38, no. 19 (ill.); 68.
Possibly Kate Flint, ed., Impressionists in England: The Critical Reception (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984), pp. 58, 361.
Anne Distel, “Renoir’s Collector: The Pâtissier, the Priest and the Prince,” in Hayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985), p. 27, n. 22.
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Hayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1985), pp. 80, cat. 35 (ill.); 208, cat. 35 (ill.); 256.
Hayward Gallery, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Renoir, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1985), pp. 136–137, cat. 34 (ill.).
Denys Sutton, “Renoir’s Kingdom,” Apollo 121, 278 (Apr. 1985), pp. 244; 245, pl. 10.
Charles S. Moffett, ed., with the assistance of Ruth Berson, Barbara Lee Williams, and Fronia E. Wissman, The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886, exh. cat. (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1986), pp. 164.
Phillippe Ariès and Georges Duby, eds., Histoire de la vie privée: De la Révolution à la Grande Guerre, vol. 4 (Éd. du Seuil, 1987), p. 487 (ill.). Translated by Arthur Goldhammer as A History of Private Life: From the Fires of Revolution to the Great War, vol. 4 (Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1990), p. 532 (ill.).
Richard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 1987), pp. 31, 33 (ill.), 119.
Horst Keller, Auguste Renoir (Bruckmann, 1987), pp. 56, fig. 41; 165.
Ministry of Culture; State Hermitage Museum; Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and Art Institute of Chicago, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: Shedevry frantsuzskoi zhivopisi XIX–nachala XX veka, iz Muzeia Metropoliten v N’iu-Iorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Masterpieces of French painting of the nineteenth to the beginning of the twentieth century from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the Art Institute of Chicago], trans. from English by Iu. A. Kleiner and A. A. Zhukov, exh. cat. (Avrora, 1988), cat. 20.
Robert Trachtenberg, “Great Art Where You Least Expect It: The Pioneers of Hollywood Art Colleting,” Spy (Sept. 1988), pp. 97–98.
Art Institute of Chicago, Master Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood and Katharine C. Lee (Art Institute of Chicago/New York Graphic Society Books/Little, Brown, 1988), pp. 9, 56 (ill.).
Birger Carlström, Hide-and-Seek: Text and Picture in the Pictures; Impressionists from Turner from [sic] Gainsborough (Carlström, 1989), pp. 42; 164, pl. 36; 165, pl. 36.
Raffaele De Grada, Renoir (Giorgio Mondadori, 1989), p. 48, pl. 27.
Sophie Monneret, Renoir, Profils de l’art (Chêne, 1989), pp. 64–65, fig. 3.
Violette de Mazia, “Form and Matter: The Form of Renoir’s Color,” Vistas (V.O.L.N./Barnes Foundation) 5, 2 (1991), pp. 15; pl. 38.
M. Therese Southgate, “The Cover,” JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association 270, 18 (Nov. 10, 1993), front cover (ill.), p. 2145.
Art Institute of Chicago, Treasures of 19th- and 20th-Century Painting: The Art Institute of Chicago, with an introduction by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago/Abbeville, 1993), p. 56 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago and Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], exh. cat. (Asahi Shinbunsha, 1994), pp. 50–51, cat. 6 (ill.).
Anne Distel, Douglas Druick, Gloria Groom, and Rodolphe Rapetti, Gustave Caillebotte: Urban Impressionist, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux/Musée d’Orsay/Art Institute of Chicago/Abbeville, 1995), p. 193, fig. 1. Translated into French by Jeanne Bouniort as Gustave Caillebotte: 1848–1894, exh. cat. (Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1994), p. 231, fig. 1.
Gerhard Gruitrooy, Renoir: A Master of Impressionism (Todtri, 1994), p. 29 (ill.).
Ruth Berson, ed., The New Painting: Impressionism, 1874–1886; Documentation, vol. 2, Exhibited Works (Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco/University of Washington Press, 1996), pp. 44, 63 (ill.).
Michael Shapiro, ed., Rings: Five Passions in World Art, exh. cat. (High Museum of Art/Abrams, 1996), pp. 298–99 (ill.).
Karin Sagner-Düchting, Renoir: Paris and the Belle Époque, trans. Fiona Elliott (Prestel, 1996), p. 72 (ill.).
Douglas W. Druick, Renoir, Artists in Focus (Art Institute of Chicago/Abrams, 1997), pp. 6; 15 (detail); 28; 30; 46; 84, pl. 3; 109.
Charlotte Nalle Eyerman, “The Composition of Femininity: The Significance of the ‘Woman at the Piano’ Motif in Nineteenth-Century French Culture from Daumier to Renoir” (Ph.D. diss., University of California, Berkeley, 1997), pp. 143; 245, fig. 58.
James Elkins, Why Are Our Pictures Puzzles? On the Modern Origins of Pictorial Complexity (Routledge, 1999), opp. p. 1, pl. 1; pp. xviii; 1; 4; 5, pl. 3; 8–9; 49; 78; 228.
Renaud Temperini, “Estetiche della modernità,” in La pittura Francese, vol. 3, ed. Pierre Rosenberg, trans. Cosima Campagnolo, Valentina Palombi, and Stefano Salpietro (Electra, 1999), pp. 816, fig. 832; 818.
Art Institute of Chicago, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in the Art Institute of Chicago, selected by James N. Wood (Art Institute of Chicago/Hudson Hills, 2000), pp. 9, 52 (ill.).
Patrick Shaw Cable, “Questions of Work, Class, Gender, and Style in the Art and Life of Gustave Caillebotte” (Ph.D. diss., Case Western Reserve University, 2000), pp. 47; 258, fig. 15.
Bridgestone Museum of Art and Nagoya City Art Museum, Renoir: From Outsider to Old Master, 1870–1892, exh. cat. (Bridgestone Museum of Art/Nagoya City Art Museum/Chunichi Shimbun, 2001), p. 84, fig. 40.
Gilles Néret, Renoir: Painter of Happiness, 1841–1919, trans. Josephine Bacon (Taschen, 2001), pp. 84–85 (ill); 110.
Michael Marrinan, “Caillebotte as Professional Painter: From Studio to the Public Eye,” in Gustave Caillebotte and the Fashioning of Identity in Impressionist Paris, ed. Norma Broude (Rutgers University Press, 2002), pp. 50; 51, fig. 21.
Sylvie Patin, L’impressionisme (Bibliothèque des Arts, 2002), pp. 119; 120–21, fig. 88.
John House, Impressionism: Paint and Politics (Yale University Press, 2004), pp. 56, 57, pl. 44.
Aviva Burnstock, Klaas Jan van den Berg, and John House, “Painting Techniques of Pierre-Auguste Renoir: 1868–1919,” Art Matters: Netherlandish Technical Studies in Art 3 (2005), pp. 51, 52, 54.
Ann Dumas, “Renoir and the Feminine Ideal: An Introduction to Renoir’s Women,” in Ann Dumas and John Collins, Renoir’s Women, exh. cat. (Columbus Museum of Art/Merrell, 2005), pp. 26; 29, fig. 18.
Richard R. Brettell, “Gauguin’s Paintings in the Impressionist Exhibition of 1882,” in Richard R. Brettell and Anne-Brigitte Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism, exh. cat. (Kimbell Art Museum/Ordrupgaard, 2005), pp. 158; 159, fig. 123.
Kyoko Kagawa, Runowaru [Pierre-Auguste Renoir], Seiyo kaiga no kyosho [Great masters of Western art] 4 (Shogakukan, 2006), p. 25 (ill.).
Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, with the collaboration of Camille Frémontier-Murphy, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, vol. 1, 1858–1881 (Bernheim-Jeune, 2007), p. 403, cat. 372 (ill.).
Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Kimbell Art Museum, 2008), pp. 16 (ill.); 66–67, cat. 24 (ill.); 69. Simultaneously published as Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, with the assistance of Dorota Chudzicka and Jill Shaw, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago/Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 16 (ill.); 66–67, cat. 24 (ill.); 69.
Gloria Groom, “The Social Network of Fashion,” in Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Metropolitan Museum of Art/Musée d’Orsay/Yale University Press, 2012), p. 35.
Gloria Groom, “Les réseaux mondains de la mode,” in L’impressionnisme et la mode, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Musée d’Orsay/Skira Flammarion, 2012), p. 77.
Gloria Groom, ed., Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Metropolitan Museum of Art/Musée d’Orsay/Yale University Press, 2012), p. 289, cat. 55 (ill.).
Gloria Groom, ed., L’Impressionnisme et la mode, exh. cat. (Musée d’Orsay/Skira Flammarion, 2012), p. 301, cat. 100.
Justine de Young, “Fashion and Intimate Portraits,” in Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Art Institute of Chicago/Metropolitan Museum of Art/Musée d’Orsay/Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 120; 121, cat. 55 (ill.).
Justine de Young, “La mode en portraits intimes,” in L’impressionnisme et la mode, ed. Gloria Groom, exh. cat. (Musée d’Orsay/Skira Flammarion, 2012), pp. 150; 158, cat. 100 (ill.).
Janet Whitmore, “Whitmore Reviews: Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide 13, 1 (Spring 2014), p. 20, fig. 8.
“Cat. 3: Woman at the Piano, 1875/76,” in Renoir Paintings and Drawings at the Art Institute of Chicago, ed. Gloria Groom and Jill Shaw (Art Institute of Chicago, 2014), https://publications.artic.edu/renoir/reader/paintingsanddrawings/section/138973.
Guillermo Solano, ed., Renoir: Intimacy, exh. cat. (Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, 2016), pp. 70, 98-99, cat. 15 (ill).

Paris, 11, rue Le Peletier, 2e exposition de peinture [second Impressionist exhibition], Apr. 1876, cat. 219, as Femme au Piano. Appartient à M. Poupin.
Possibly London, Dowdeswell and Dowdeswell, Paintings, Drawings and Pastels by Members of “La société des impressionnistes,” Apr.–July 1883, cat. 13, as Femme au piano.
New York, Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Claude Monet and Pierre Auguste Renoir, Apr. 1900, cat. 39, as Jeune Femme au Piano.
New York, Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Pierre Auguste Renoir, Nov. 14–Dec. 5, 1908, cat. 5, as Jeune femme au piano, 1878.
New York, Durand-Ruel, 1911.
Possibly New York, Durand-Ruel, Exhibition of Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 14–Mar. 16, 1912, cat. 19, as Fillette en robe bleue.
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Some Modern Primitives: International Exhibition of Paintings and Prints, Summer 1931, July 2–Aug. 16, 1931, cat. 73.
Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Commemorative Exhibition from the Martin A. Ryerson Collection, Oct. 9–30, 1932, cat. 18.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, May 23–Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 337 (ill.).
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Museum of Art, Manet and Renoir, Nov. 29, 1933–Jan. 1, 1934, no cat. no.
Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress”: Loan Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture for 1934, June 1–Oct. 31, 1934, cat. 226.
Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 1934, cat. 16.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Renoir: A Special Exhibition of His Paintings, May 18–Sept. 12, 1937, cat. 27 (ill.).
Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art, Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 7–Dec. 12, 1937, cat. 24 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Special Exhibition of the Ryerson Bequest: Paintings, Oriental and Decorative Arts, Jan. 26–31, 1938, no cat.
San Francisco, Palace of Fine Arts, Golden Gate International Exposition, May 25–Sept. 29, 1940, cat. 292 (ill.).
San Diego, Fine Arts Gallery, Special Loans of Old Masters and Contemporary Paintings from the San Francisco Exposition and Los Angeles County Fair, Oct. 12–Nov. 2, 1940, no cat.
New York, Duveen Galleries, Renoir: Centennial Loan Exhibition, 1841–1941; For the Benefit of the Free French Relief Committee, Nov. 8–Dec. 6, 1941, cat. 14 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings by Renoir, Feb. 3–Apr. 1, 1973, cat. 20 (ill.).
New York, Wildenstein, Renoir: The Gentle Rebel; A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Association for Mentally Ill Children, Oct. 24–Nov. 30, 1974, cat. 10 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, Art at the Time of the Centennial, June 19–Aug. 8, 1976, no cat.
Tokyo, Isetan Museum of Art, Exposition Renoir, Sept. 26–Nov. 6, 1979, cat. 16 (ill.); Kyoto Municipal Museum, Nov. 10–Dec. 9, 1979.
Albi, Musée Toulouse-Lautrec, Trésors impressionnistes du Musée de Chicago, June 27–Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 19 (ill.).
London, Hayward Gallery, Renoir, Jan. 30–Apr. 21, 1985, cat. 35 (ill.); Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, May 14–Sept. 2, 1985, cat. 34 (ill.); Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Oct. 9, 1985–Jan. 5, 1986.
Leningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzskoĭ zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-Ĭorke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], March 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 20; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.
Nagaoka, Niigata Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Shikago bijutsukan ten: Kindai kaiga no 100-nen [Masterworks of modern art from the Art Institute of Chicago], Apr. 20–May 29, 1994, cat. 6 (ill.); Nagoya, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, June 10–July 24, 1994; Yokohama Museum of Art, Aug. 6–Sept. 25, 1994.
Atlanta, High Museum of Art, Rings: Five Passions in World Art, July 4–Sept. 29, 1996, no cat. no.
Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Art Museum, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 24 (ill.).
Musée d’Orsay, Paris, L’impressionnisme et la mode, Sept. 25, 2012–Jan. 20, 2013, cat. 100; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Feb. 26–May 27, 2013, cat. 55, as Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity; Art Institute of Chicago, June 26–Sept. 29, 2013.
Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Renoir: Intimacy, Oct. 18, 2016-Jan. 22, 2017, cat. 15 (ill.).

Paul-Victor Poupin, Paris, by Apr. 1876 [per Catalogue de la 2e exposition de peinture, exh. cat. (Alcan-Lévy, 1876), p. 21, cat. 219, which lists Femme au piano as “appartient à M. Poupin”]. Possibly Durand-Ruel, Paris, by Apr. 1883 [per exhibition catalogue, cat. 13 is listed as Femme au piano with an asking price of £100, however Durand-Ruel Archives cannot confirm that the Art Institute’s painting was the one exhibited in London in April–July 1883; Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file, Art Institute of Chicago: “Il est possible qu’il s’agisse du même tableau mais nous n’avons aucun document nous le prouvant”]. Sold (possibly by the artist) to Durand-Ruel, Paris, Sept. 8, 1886, for 1,200 francs [per Durand-Ruel, Paris, stock book for 1884–90 (no. 1200, as La Femme au piano), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]. Possibly sold at Moore’s Art Galleries, New York, May 6, 1887, lot 93, for $675 [per Dauberville and Dauberville 2007. See also Moore’s Art Galleries, New York, The Durand-Ruel Collection of French Paintings, sale cat. (Moore’s Art Galleries, May 5–6, 1887), p. 28, lot 93. However, according to the Durand-Ruel Archives, “Le tableau n’a pas été vendu en 1887 lors de la vente à la ‘Moore’s Art Galleries’: il s’agissait d’une vente fictive (aucun tableau n’a été vendu) destinée à faire de la publicité pour les tableaux apportés par Durand-Ruel à New York.” See Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]. Durand-Ruel, New York, by Dec. 16, 1911. [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1888–93 (no. 112, as Jeune femme au piano), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (d. 1932), Chicago, Dec. 16, 1911, for $16,000. [per Durand-Ruel, New York, stock book for 1888–93 (no. 112, as Jeune femme au piano), as confirmed by Paul-Louis Durand-Ruel and Flavie Durand-Ruel, Durand-Ruel Archives, to the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 5, 2010, curatorial object file]; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, Died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.

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