Updated 09 September 2024
On Display Permanent collection
Woman in Black (Before the Theater)
Date | 1875 |
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Materials and Techniques | Oil on canvas |
Size(cm) | 57.3 x 30.7 |
Inscriptions | Signed lower right: Berthe Morisot |
Standard ref. | Clairet/Montalant/Y.Rouart, 59 |
Category | Paintings |
Collection Number | P.2017-0002 |
Provenance
Alfonse Portier, Paris, by 1892; sold to Hayashi Tadamasa, Paris, 1901; Oscar Schmitz, Dresden and Zurich, until 1933; by descent to his son Edward A. Schmitz, Dresden, until 1936; sold to Wildenstein & Co., Paris & New York, 1936; sold to Edward G. Robinson, Beverly Hills, by 1938: Christie's New York, 17 May 1983, lot 30; private collection, Paris; Barbara Lambrecht, 2012; Christie's London, 28 February 2017, lot 3; Nukaga Gallery, Tokyo; purchased by NMWA, 2017.
Exhibition History
- 1876
- (probably) 2nd Impressionist exhibition, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 0 April 1876 - 0 April 1876, no. 178, titled "Figure de femme"
- 1896
- Berthe Morisot (Madame Eugène Manet), Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 5 March 1896 - 21 March 1896, no. 66, titled "Dame en noir"
- 1936
- La collection Oscar Schmitz; chefs-d'oeuvre de la peinture franc̜aise du XIXe siècle, Wildenstein & Co., Paris, 0 1936 - 0 1936, no. 45
- 1953
- Forty Paintings from the Edward G. Robinson Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 4 March 1953 - 12 April 1953, no. 19
- 1995
- Les femmes impressionnistes, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 2 March 1995 - 11 April 1995, Hiroshima Museum of Art, 16 April-21 May; Takashimaya "Grand Hall", 20 March-1April; Hakodate Museum of Art, Hokkaido, 1 June-20 August, no. 3
- 2012
- L'impressionnisme et la mode, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 25 September 2012 - 20 January 2013, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 26-May 27, 2013; Art Institute of Chicago, June 25-September 22, 2013, no. 52
- 2019
- Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, Dallas Museum of Art, 24 February 2019 - 26 May 2019, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 18 June-22 September 2019, cat. no. 25 (英語版); cat. no. 42 (仏語版)
- 2019
- Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 18 June 2019 - 22 September 2019, Musée d'Orsay, Paris, 18 June-22 September 2019, cat. no. 25 (英語版); cat. no. 42 (仏語版)
- 2023
- Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, 8 April 2023 - 11 June 2023, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 4 July-3 September, pp. 93, 232, cat. no. 2-61
Bibliography
- 1961
- Bataille, M. L.; Wildenstein, G. Berthe Morisot: catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles. Paris, Les Beaux-Arts, [1961], p. 27, no. 59, repr.
- 1996
- The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886: Documentation: Volume I. Reviews. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 1996, pp. 104, 110, no. 178.
- 1997
- Clairet, Alain; Montalant, Delphine; Rouart, Yves. Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895: catalogue raisonné de l'œuvre peint. Paris, CÉRA-nrs, 1997, p. 142, no. 59.
- 2007
- Mabuchi, Akiko. "Hayashi Tadamasa's western art collection and Berthe Morisot". Hayashi Tadamasa: Japonisme and Cultural Exchanges. The Committee of Hayashi Tadamasa Symposium ed. Brücke, Tokyo, 2007, pp. 325-338.
- 2016
- Rey, Jean-Dominique. Berthe Morisot. Paris, Flammarion, [2016], p. 64, col. repr.
- 2018
- Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist(exh. cat.). New York, Rizzoli Electa; Philadelphia, PA, The Barnes Foundation; Dallas, TX, Dallas Museum of Art; Québec, Canada, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, 2018., cat. no. 25, col. repr.(英語版);cat. no. 42, col. repr.(仏語版)
- 2019
- Annual Bulletin of the National Museum of Western Art. No. 52 (Apr. 2017-Mar. 2018), 2019, Mabuchi, Akiko. New Acquisitions. pp. 13-15, List of New Acquisitions. p. 21, col. repr.
- 2021
- When Here and Afar Meet: Western Art in Yamagata/Western Art in Takaoka (exh. cat.). Shinfuji, Atsushi, ed. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2021, pp. 143, 184, cat. no. Y3_26 | T3_12, col. repr.
- 2023
- Imaged and Imagined: Spain Seen through Prints from Japanese Collections (exh. cat.). Kawase, Yusuke; Inaba, Yuta; Nakada, Asuka et al., eds. Tokyo, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, 2023, pp. 93, 232, cat. no. 2-61, col. repr.