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Forêt de Compiègne
Berthe Morisot · 1885
Provenance
Ownership history
- Mme Ernest Rouart (née Julie Manet, the artist’s daughter, died 1966), Paris. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York; sold Sotheby’s Parke & Bernet, New York, April 17, 1969, lot 125 (ill.) to Estelle P. McCormick, Philadelphia; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1978.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Berthe Morisot, 1896, cat. 135.
- Geneva, Galerie Motte, Exposition Berthe Morisot, June 12 - 30, 1951, cat. 12.
- Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, September 6 - November 29, 1987, cat. 61 (ill.); Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, December 12, 1987 - February 21, 1988; South Hudley, MA, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, March 14 - May 9, 1988.
- Paris, France, Marmottan-Monet Museum, Berthe Morisot: 1841-1895, March 7- July 1, 2012. cat. 58.
Literature
Published references
- M.-L. Bataille and G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1961), p. 35, no. 183, fig. 191.
- Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Parke Burnet Galleries, New York, auction cat., April 17, 1969, under lot 125.
- A. Clairet, D. Montalant, and Y. Rouart, Berthe Morisot 1841 - 1895 Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (Paris, 1997), no. 187.
- Marianne Mathieu, Berthe Morisot: 1841-1895, exh. cat. (Yale UP, 2012), p, 168, cat. 58.
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