LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Size Notes:

32 x 25 3?4 in. (81.3 x 65.5 cm.)

Description:

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Exhibited:

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Renoir, May-June 1896, no. 34. Paris, Galerie Charpentier, Portraits français, 1945, no. 91bis. Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel et Cie., Quelques portraits d'artistes, June 1947, no. 17 (illustrated). New York, Wildenstein & Co. Inc., Renoir, A Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the New York Infirmary, March-April 1950, p. 44, no. 67 (illustrated, p. 31). Paris, Galerie Paul Pétridès, Hommage à Renoir, June-July 1950, p. 15, no. 3. The Art Gallery of Toronto; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Toledo Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor and Oregon, Portland Art Museum, Berthe Morisot and her Circle, Paintings from the Rouart Collection, September 1952-October 1954, no. 30 (illustrated). Paris, Musée Jacquemart André, Berthe Morisot, spring 1961, no. 187. Vevey, Musée Jenisch, Berthe Morisot, June-September 1961, p. 15, no. 154. Marseille, Musée Cantini, Renoir: Peintre et sculpteur, June-September 1963, no. 102. Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada; The Art Institute of Chicago and Fort Worth, The Kimbell Art Museum, Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age, June 1997-April 1998, pp. 220-223, no. 53 (illustrated in color, p. 221; detail illustrated in color, p. 222). Sakura, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art; Sendai, The Miyagi Museum of Art and Sapporo, Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Renoir: Modern Eyes, April-August 1999, p. 138, no. 56 (illustrated in color, p. 139).

Literature:

F. Jourdain, "L'art au jour le jour: L'exposition de M. Renoir" in La Patrie, 23 June 1896, p. 2. G. Rivière, Renoir et ses amis, Paris, 1921, p. 200. A. André, Renoir, 1928, p. 57 (illustrated; dated 1896). C. Terrasse, Cinquante portraits de Renoir, Paris, 1941 (illustrated, pl. 33). M. Florisoone, Renoir, London, 1942, p. 166, no. 59 (illustrated). M. Drucker, Renoir, Paris, 1944, p. 157, no. 112 (illustrated). G.G. Görlich, ed., Renoir, Milan, 1945 (illustrated, pl. 13). G. Reyer, "Le dechirant amour de Berthe Morisot" in Paris Match, 15 April 1961, no. 627 (illustrated in color in situ in the salon of the rue de Villejust, p. 88). J. Renoir, Renoir, My Father, London, 1962, p. 97 (illustrated; dated 1896). J. Manet, "A French Lady's Engaging Recollections: The Great Ones All Painted Us, Renoir, Degas, Manet and Mother" in Life, 10 May 1963 (illustrated in color). B.E. White, Renoir: His Life, Art and Letters, New York, 1984, p. 200 (illustrated, p. 203). E. Fezzi, Tout l'oeuvre peint de Renoir, période impressionniste 1869-1883, Paris, 1985, no. 636 (illustrated). D. Montalant, "Une longue amitié: Berthe Morisot et Pierre-Auguste Renoir" in L'Oeil, May 1985, p. 42 (illustrated in color, p. 43). D. Rouart, Berthe Morisot: The Correspondence with her Family and her Friends, Manet, Puvis de Chavannes, Degas, Monet, Renoir, and Mallarmé, Exeter, 1987, pp. 205 and 235. R. de Boland Roberts and J. Roberts, eds., Growing up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet, London, 1987, p. 2 (illustrated in color; illustrated in color again on the cover). C. Stuckey, W. Scott and S. Lindsay, Berthe Morisot, Impressionist, exh. cat., National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1987, p. 170 (illustrated). B. Denvir, The Chronicle of Impressionism: A Timeline History of Impressionist Art, London, 1993, p. 199 (illustrated). A. Distel, Renoir, Paris, 1993, p. 99 (illustrated in color). D. Rouart, Renoir, Geneva, 1993, p. 76. V. Duponchelle and B. de Rochebouet, "Julie et Berthe au salon" in Le Figaro, 5 May 2000 (illustrated). M. Shennan, Berthe Morisot: The First Lady of Impressionism, Stroud, 2000, p. 275 (illustrated in color, p. 167). G.-P. and M. Dauberville, Renoir: Catalogue raisonné des tableaux, pastels, dessins et aquarelles, Paris, 2009, vol. II, p. 194, no. 997 (illustrated). A. Distel, Renoir, New York, 2010, p. 296, no. 269 (illustrated in color). B.E. White, Renoir: An Intimate Biography, London, 2017, p. 180 (illustrated). C. Kang, M. Mathieu, N.R. Myers, S. Patry and B. Scott, Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, exh. cat., Musée national des Beaux-Arts du Québec, 2018, p. 213 (illustrated in color, fig. 17). M. Mathieu, ed., Julie Manet: An Impressionist Heritage, exh. cat., Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, 2021, p. 217 (illustrated in color).

Provenance:

Berthe Morisot, Paris (gift from the artist). Julie Manet, Paris (by descent from the above, then by descent); sale, Christie's, New York, 8 May 2000, lot 27. Acquired at the above sale by the present owner.