Girl with Cherries by Eva Gonzalès
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Girl with Cherries

Eva Gonzalès · c. 1870

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. William M. Chase, New York; his sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, 1896, lot 1095, as Fruit Girl; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York [this and the following information acc. to Sainsaulieu 1990]; sold to Miss M. Mott, Randor, Pa., February 15, 1904; given to Mrs. Haven Emerson [acc. to information provided by Walker Galleries]. Maynard Walker Galleries, New York [see label on reverse and Maynard Walker Galleries 1946]; sold to the Art Institute, 1940 [see sale receipt dated March 12, 1940, copy in curatorial file].

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Vanity Fair: The Exhibition of Styles in Woman’s Headdress and Adornment Through the Ages, June 16–July 16, 1942, cat. 39, as Young Woman with Cherries.
  • Dayton, OH, Dayton Art Institute, 19th Century French Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 1–22, 1948, no cat; Saginaw Museum, Exhibition of Nineteenth Century French Painting, 1948, cat. 13; Springfield, MO, Springfield Art Museum, no cat.; Memphis, TN, Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Mar. 1–22, 1949; Utica, New York, Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Apr. 3–24, 1949, no cat. (organized by the American Federation of the Arts, New York).
  • San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, The French Tradition, Feb. 5–Mar. 12, 1961.
  • Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18–Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 28 (ill.), as Girl with Cherries, c. 1870; Fukoka Art Museum, Jan.5–Feb. 2, 1986; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4–Apr. 13, 1986.
  • Musée de Dieppe, Visiting Masterpiece: Eva Gonzalès, Girl with Cherries, Sep. 3, 2003–Sep. 26, 2004, no cat.
  • Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 6 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • W. S. Sparrow, Woman Painters of the World (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1905), 231 as The Fruit Girl.
  • F. A. Sweet, “Girl With Cherries by Eva Gonzales,” The Art Institute Bulletin 34, no. 5 (1940): cover ill., 73-75 (ill.), as Girl with Cherries.
  • The Maynard Walker Gallery, 1946, np (ill.) as Girl with Red Cherries.
  • Claude Roger-Marx, “Eva Gonzalez,” Arts (July 14, 1950): 8.
  • Paintings in the Art Institute of Chicago: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago : Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 200.
  • Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, Eva Gonzalès 1849-1883: étude critique et catalouge raisonné (Paris, 1990), no. 59.
  • Carol Jane Grant, “Eva Gonzelès (1849-1883): An Examination of the Artist’s Style and Subject Matter” (PhD diss., The Ohio State University, 1994), vol. 1, 123, 125; vol. 2, xvi no. 87, plate 87.
  • Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), 34–35 no. 6.
  • Gloria Groom and Douglas Druick, The Age of French Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010), 34–35 no. 5.

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