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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Mar 1, 2017 | Christie's | London | Impressionist and Modern Art Evening Sale | 5 | $****** - ****** | Femme et enfant au balcon |
paintings
61 x 50.2 cm (24 x 19.75 in)
oil on canvas
signed 'B Morisot' (lower right)
Louise Gillou, Paris.
Leicester Galleries, London, by 1928.
Mr & Mrs Henry Ittelson Jr, New York, by 1961.
The Lefevre Gallery, London.
Alex Maguy, Paris.
Schröder und Leisewitz, Bremen.
Acquired from the above by the present owner in 1976.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, L'Enfance, June 1949, no. 152 (illustrated; titled 'Sur la colline de Chaillot').
New York, M. Knoedler & Co., From the Private Collections of New York, Impressionist Treasures, January 1966, no. 21, p. 29 (illustrated).
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, September - November 1987, no. 13, pp. 44-45 & 217 (illustrated pl. 13, p. 46; titled ‘On the Balcony’); this exhibition later travelled to Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, December 1987 - February 1988; and South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, March - May 1988.
Paris, Musée Marmottan, Les femmes impressionnistes: Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Berthe Morisot, October - December 1993, no. 60, p. 149 (illustrated).
Paris, Musée d'Orsay, Manet, Monet and the Gare Saint-Lazare, February - March 1998, no. 56, pp. 41 & 201 (illustrated fig. 33); this exhibition later travelled to Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, June - September 1998.
Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Berthe Morisot, June - November 2002, no. 11, p. 122 (illustrated p. 123; dated ‘1871-1872’ and titled ‘Dame et enfant sur la terrasse des Morisot, rue Franklin ou Femme et enfant au balcon’).
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Women in Impressionism: From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman, October 2006 - January 2007, no. 67, p. 163 (illustrated fig. 126, p. 162; dated '1871-72').
New York, Metropolitan Museum, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity, February - May 2013, no. 77, pp. 159 & 287 (illustrated); this exhibition later travelled to Chicago, Art Institute, June - September 2013.
Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Manet - Sehen: Der Blick der Moderne, May - September 2016, no. 22, p. 142 (illustrated; dated '1871-1872').
The Burlington Magazine, vol. 53, no. 309, December 1928 (illustrated pl. 23; titled 'The Balcony').
M. Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 1933, no. 30, p. 119 (titled ‘Sur la terrasse’).
T.W. Earp, French Painting, London, 1945 (illustrated pl. 26; titled ‘Le Champ de Mars’).
D. Rouart, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 1954 (illustrated pl. 14; titled 'Au balcon').
J. Rewald, The History of Impressionism, New York, 1961, p. 293 (illustrated; titled 'On the Balcony, Paris').
M.L. Bataille & G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot: Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris, 1961, no. 24, p. 25 (illustrated pl. 7).
P. Huisman, Berthe Morisot, Lausanne, 1962, p. 11 (illustrated).
P. Courthion, Autour de l'Impressionnisme, Paris, 1964, p. 35 (illustrated).
C. Virch, 'The Annual Summer Loan Exhibition', in Met Museum of Art Bulletin, vol. 26, no. 1, summer 1967, p. 34 (illustrated; titled ‘The Balcony’).
P. Courthion, Impressionism, New York, 1969, p. 159 (illustrated; titled 'The Balcony').
W.P. Scott, 'Berthe Morisot: Painting from a Private Place', in American Artist, vol. 41, no. 424, November 1977, p. 68 (illustrated).
J.D. Rey, Berthe Morisot, Naefels, 1982 (the watercolour version from the Art Institute of Chicago illustrated; titled ‘On the Balcony’).
K. Adler & T. Garb, The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, London, 1986, p. 82 (likely mentioned in Morisot’s letter to her sister Edma of August 1871).
K. Adler & T. Garb, Berthe Morisot, London, 1987, p. 28 (the watercolour version from the Art Institute of Chicago illustrated pl. 18).
K. Adler, ‘The Spaces of Everyday Life: Berthe Morisot and Passy’, in T.J. Edelstein, Perspectives on Morisot, New York, 1990, no. 6, pp. 39, 107-108 & 110 (illustrated pl. 6 and again on the cover; dated ‘circa 1871-1872’ and titled ‘On the Balcony’).
A. Higonnet, Berthe Morisot's Images of Women, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, 1992, p. 298 (the watercolour version from the Art Institute of Chicago illustrated pl. II).
B.E. White, Impressionists Side by Side, New York, 1996, p. 160 (illustrated; titled 'On the Balcony').
A. Clairet, D. Montalant & Y. Rouart, Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895: Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Montolivet, 1997, no. 24, p. 124 (illustrated).
J.D. Rey, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 2010, p. 62 (illustrated; titled ‘Dame et enfant sur la terrasse ou Femme et enfant au balcon’).
Exh. cat., L'impressionnisme et la mode, Paris, 2012, p. 300.
↵↵signed 'B Morisot' (lower right)↵oil on canvas↵24 x 19 3/4 in. (61 x 50 cm.)↵Painted in 1872
