On the Balcony by Berthe Morisot
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On the Balcony

Berthe Morisot · 1871/72

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Estate of the artist [Lugt Suppl. 388a]; by descent to her daughter, Mme. Ernst Rouart (née Julie Manet; d. 1966), to around 1930 [according to Angoulvent 1933]. De Hauke and Company, New York, by 1930 [the registrar’s card states that de Hauke lent the drawing to the 1930 exhibition at the Art Institute]. Sold by Jacques Seligmannn & Co., New York, to the Art Institute, 1933.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, "Berthe Morisot," March 5-21, 1896, cat. 306 (?).
  • Paris, L. Dru, "Berthe Morisot," 1926, cat. 58.
  • Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, "Berthe Morisot," 1929, cat. 128.
  • New York, De Hauke and Company, "Exhibition of Watercolors and Drawings by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary French Artists," December 1929, cat. 19.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "10th International Watercolor Exposition," March 20-April 20, 1930, cat. 51.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture," June 20-November 20, 1933, no. 924.
  • Chicago Arts Club, "Berthe Morisot," March 24-April 7, 1943, cat. 2.
  • San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, "Nineteenth Century French Drawings," March 8-April 6, 1947, p. 51, cat. 79 (ill.).
  • Paris, Musée de Orangerie, "De David à Toulouse-Lautrec," 1955, cat. 85.
  • New York, Wildenstein and Company, "Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago," October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 112.
  • Palm Beach, Fla., The Society of the Four Arts, "Drawings and Prints," January 4-27, 1973, cat. 34.
  • Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, "Berthe Morisot," March-April 1973.

Literature

Published references

  • Monique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1933), p. 127, no. 204.
  • Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), p. 97, no. 103 (ill.).
  • D. Rouart, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1950), pp. 118-124.
  • Bataille and Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1961), no. 618, fig. 598.
  • Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 72-73, no. 4B9.
  • Réalités, 10 (March-April 1980), p. 32.
  • Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 25, 26, 28, and 118 (ill.).
  • Motherhood, Miniature Series (Philadelphia, 1991).
  • Susan L Feagin and Patrick Maynard, Aesthetics (Oxford, 1997).
  • Lisa DiCaprio and Merry Wiesner, Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women’s History (Boston, 2001).
  • Sally Sieloff Magnan, Paroles (New York, 2002).
  • Carol Armstrong, Manet Manette (New Haven, 2002), pp. 203-04, fig. 97.

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