
Art Institute of Chicago
Woman Reading Before Window
Albert André · 1903
Provenance
Ownership history
- The artist; sold to Durand-Ruel, Paris, June 8, 1905 [this and the following according to correspondence with France Daguet of Durand-Ruel & Cie. to Andrea Hales, March 7, 1986; in curatorial object file]; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York, June 29, 1911; sold to Martin A. Ryerson (1856–1932), Chicago, Dec. 16, 1911; by descent to his wife Carrie Hutchinson Ryerson (1859–1937), Chicago, 1932 [Last Will and Testament of Martin A. Ryerson, died August 11, 1932, copy in Institutional Archives, Art Institute of Chicago]; bequeathed to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1937.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, Exhibition of One Hundred Paintings by the Impressionists, 1905-1906, cat. 2 as Young Woman Reading.
- Toledo, OH, Toledo Museum of Art, Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 4-Dec. 13, 1937, cat. 3, as Woman at Window.
- Chicago, Arts Club, Paintings by Albert André, Jan. 31-Feb. 28, 1941, cat. 19.
Literature
Published references
- Opening of the New Galleries Devoted to the Permanent Collections of Paintings and Sculpture and Exhibition of One Hundred Paintings by the Impressionists. (Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art, 1905) cat. 2, as Young Woman Reading.
- Toledo Museum of Art, Paintings by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, (Toledo: Museum of Art, 1937) cat. 3, as Woman at Window.
- Paintings by Albert André (Chicago: The Arts Club of Chicago, 1941) cat. 18.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute: A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1961), 15.
- A. James Speyer, Twentieth-Century European Paintings, compiled by Courtney Graham Donnell. (Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 1980), 30 no. 1A2, plate 1A2.
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