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Berthe Morisot · 1871/72
Provenance
Ownership history
- 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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