Berthe Morisot
French, 1841-1895
Woman in a Garden, 1882/83
Oil on canvas
48 1/2 x 37 in. (123 x 94 cm)
A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation, 1999.363
Medieval to Modern European Painting and Sculpture
On display at the Kimbell Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Possibly London, Dowdeswell Galleries, Impressionist exhibition organized by Durand-Ruel: Paintings, Drawings, and Pastels by Members of the “Société des Impressionistes, April 1883, cat. 1.
Paris, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Berthe Morisot (Madame Eugène Manet): Exposition de son oeuvre, March 5-21, 1896, cat. 1, as Le Jardin, 1883.
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1902 [acc. to Washington 1987 and Clairet 1997]
Paris, Salon d’Automne, 1907, cat. 1 ILL, 7.11.07
Paris, Manzi, Joyant and Cie., 1912, no. 41 [acc. to Washington 1987 and Clairet 1997]
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Cent oeuvres de Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), November 7-11, 1919, cat. 21.
Paris, Marcel Bernheim Gallery, Réunion d’oeuvres de Berthe Morisot, June-July 1922, cat. 1.
Paris, L. Dru Gallery, Exposition de Pastels, Aquarelles, Dessins, Crayons de Berthe Morisot, May 21-June 25, 1926, cat. 57, as Jardin, 1883.
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Exposition d’oeuvres de Berthe Morisot, May 6-24, 1929, cat. 1, as Le Jardin, prêté par M. et Mme Rouart.
Paris, Musée de l’Orangerie, Exposition: Berthe Morisot, 1941, cat. 43, as Le Jardin, 1883.
Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, August-September 1949, cat. 24, as Le Jardin, 1883.
London, The Arts Council, Berthe Morisot: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1950, cat. 27, as In the Garden, 1883.
Toronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Berthe Morisot and Her Circle: Paintings from the Rouart Collection, 1952-1954, cat. 5, as The Garden, 1883; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; San Fransisco, California Palace of The Legion of Honor; Portland, Portland Museum of Art.
Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, La Collection Nathan Cummings, March-May 1965, as Jeune Fille dans un Jardin. [acc. to label on reverse of painting]
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, June 28-September 11, 1970, cat. 15, as In the Garden, 1883, also shown in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1-September 7, 1971.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, September 6-November 29, 1987, no cat. no. as The Garden; traveled to Fort-Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, December 12, 1987-February 21, 1988; South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, March 14-May 9, 1988.
Singapore, Singapore Museum of Art, Monet to Moore, April 1-May 30, 1999, traveled to Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, June 11-August 22, 1999; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 10-November 7, 1999; Oregon, Portland Art Museum, November 19-January 23, 2000; The Art Institute of Chicago, march 13-May 28, 2000, cat. 35, as The Garden (LeJardin), 1882-83.
Publication History
Possibly Review in Artist (May 1, 1883) cited in Kate Flint, Impressionists in England (London, 1984), p. 61.
Kunst und Künstler 9 (1911), p. 206, as Im Garten.
M. Dormoy, “La Collection Ernest Rouart, Formes 24 (April 1932), afb. pp. 256-257.
Monique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1933), pp. 70-71, cat. 155 as Le Jardin rue de Villejust, 1883.
Louis Rouart, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1941), p. 31.
M.L. Bataille and G. Wildenstein, Catalogue Raisonné of the Oil Paintings, Pastels, and Watercolours of Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1961), pp. 17, 32, cat. 142 as Le Jardin, 1883, pl. 54.
Consolidated Foods Corporation’s Nathan Cummings Collection (Chicago, 1983), p. 12, fig. 7 (ill.)
Kate Flint, Impressionists in England: The Critical Reception (London, 1984), p. 61.
Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (New York, 1990).
Collector’s Agenda (Netherlands, 1994) as Young Woman in a Garden, 1883.
Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, and Yves Rouart, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1997), p. 184, no. 143.
Gloria Groom, “Young Woman in a Garden,” Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), pp. 68-69 (color ills.).
Ownership History
With the artist until her death in 1895; by descent to the artist’s daughter Julie and her husband Ernest Rouart; by descent to their son, Denis Rouart; sold to Nathan Cummings, 1955, Palm Beach, Florida [this and the following information provided by Consolidated Foods Corporation, Sara Lee Corporation; see also Chicago 2000]; given to Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Chicago in the 1970s; sold to Consolidated Foods Corporation, Nathan Cummings Collection, 1983; given to the Art Institute, 1999.

