Woman at Her Toilette by Berthe Morisot
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Woman at Her Toilette

Berthe Morisot · 1875–80

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. William Merritt Chase, New York; his sale, New York, American Art Galleries, 1896, lot 1093 [according to Clairet 1997]. Mary Cassatt, 1896 [see Paris 1896]. Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1905 [see London 1905]. Wildenstein & Co., New York [according to Chicago 1933]. Paul Rosenberg, New York by 1924; sold to the Art Institute, 1924.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Possibly Paris, 2éme Exposition de Peinture (1), Apr. 1876. [see D. Rouart, Correspondence de Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1950), pp. 98, 257]
  • Paris, 5me Expostition de Peinture, 1880, cat. 115.
  • Paris, Durand-Ruel, Berthe Morisot, Exposition de son oeuvre, Mar. 1896, cat. 68.
  • London, Durand-Ruel at the Grafton Galleries, A Selection From the Pictures by Boudin, Cézanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, cat. 162 (ill.).
  • Pittsburgh, Penn., Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings Édouard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Oct.-Dec. 1924, cat. 29 (ill.).
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibitions of Paintings of Three Woman Painters, Nov. 1931, not listed in cat.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 334 (ill.).
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 257.
  • The Toledo Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 1934, cat. 11.
  • New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, Feb.-Mar. 1941, cat. 95 (ill.).
  • The Arts Club of Chicago, Berthe Morisot, Mar.-Apr. 1943, cat. 1.
  • New York, Wildenstien and Co., Berthe Morisot, Nov.-Dec. 10, 1960, cat. 12 (ill.).

Literature

Published references

  • W. Dewhurst, “Impressionist Painting: Its Genesis and Development,” International Studio 19 (May, 1903), pp. 165, 168 (ill.).
  • Roger Marx, “Les Femmes Peintres et l’impressionisme, Berthe Morisot,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, per. 3, vol. 38 (December 1907), pp. 497 (ill.), 498.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1924 (Chicago, 1924), ill.
  • R.M.F., “ A Painting by Berthe Morisot,” The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 18 (1924), pp. 50, 51, (ill.)
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, (Chicago, 1925), p. 65 (ill.).
  • Monique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1931), pp. 55, 121, no. 83.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook (Chicago, 1932), pp. 62, ill. 164.
  • D.C. Rich, “Französische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,” Pantheon 11 (March 1933), pp. 77 (ill.),78.
  • Lionello Venturi, Les Archives de l’impressionisme vol. 2 (Paris, 1939), p. 257.
  • Hans Huth, “Impressionism Comes to America,” Gazette des Beaux-Arts, sér. 6, vol. 29 (April, 1946), pp. 225-252, fig. 17.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 34.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 340, ill. p. 288.

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