About This Artwork
Édouard Manet
French, 1832-1883
Portrait of Berthe Morisot, 1873/74
Watercolor, over traces of graphite, on off-white wove paper
209 x 168 mm
Helen Regenstein Collection, 1963.812
Prints and Drawings
Not on Display
Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories
Exhibition History
Berlin, "Schwarz-Weiss Ausstellung, Berliner Secession," 1910-1911, cat. 659.
Berlin, Hugo Perls, "De Delacroix à Picasso," 1925.
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, "Exposition d’oeuvres de Manet," April 14–May 4, 1928.
New York, De Hauke & Co., "Exhibition of Works by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary French Artists: Watercolors and Drawings," March 1-23, 1929, cat. 12.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, "Édouard Manet," 1966-1967, cat. 110, cat. by Anne Coffin Hanson; also traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, "Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago," January 5–27, 1974, cat. 30.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings," 1974, pp. 150-51, cat. 74 (ill.), cat. by Harold Joachim.
Paris, Musée du Louvre, "Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso," October 15, 1976-January 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 55 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 114-15, cat. 54 (ill.).
Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, "Édouard Manet Retrospective," April 22–August 8, 1983, cat. 145; traveled to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 10-November 27, 1983.
The Art Institute of Chicago, "Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years 1958-1983," July 24-September 30, 1985, pp. 148-49, cat. 67 (ill.), cat. by Martha Tedeschi; traveled to the St. Louis Art Museum, March 10–May 16, 1986.
Publication History
Karl Scheffler, "Die Zeichnenden Künste in Berlin," Kunst und Kunstler IX (1911), p. 178, 183 (ill.).
Marees-Gesellschaft, Édouard Manet, facsimiles-reproductions (Munich, 1922), pl. 10.
A. Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique (Paris, 1931) pp. 539-40.
Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet I (Paris, 1932), p. 148, no. 238.
A. Tabarant, Manet et ses Oeuvres (Paris, 1947), pp. 258-59, no. 611.
K. Martin, Edouard Manet, Watercolors and Pastels (New York, 1959), pl. 9.
The Art Quarterly XXVII: 1 (1964), pp. 100 and 107 (ill.).
Critica d’ Arte XIV (1967), fasc. 85, p. 8 (ill.).
Jean Selz, XIXth Century Drawings and Watercolors (New York, 1968), p. 130 (ill.).
Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1969), no. 434, fig. 304.
John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (London, 1970), p. 158 (ill.).
Dennis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: catalogue raisonné (Lausanne and Paris, 1975), no. 391 (ill.).
Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 25, 29, and 118 (ill.).
Theresa A. Gronberg, Manet: A Retrospective (New York, 1988), p.110, no. 74.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh, "‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26:1 (2000), pp. 5-15, fig. 7.
Ownership History
Paul Cassirer (died 1926), Berlin [Paris 1983]; Tilla Durieux-Cassirer (née Ottilie Godefroy), Berlin, by 1922 [Edouard Manet Facsimiles 1922]; Galerie Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam [letter from Walter Feilchenfeldt of June 9, 2003 in curatorial file]; placed on consignment by Galerie Paul Cassirer to Walter Feilchenfeldt, March 1935 [letter mentioned above]; sold to Mrs. Margarete Oppenheim, Berlin, June 1935 [letter mentioned above]; by descent to her step-daughter, Mrs. Martha Oppenheim–von Simson [according to Mrs. Vita Petersen]; by descent to her daughter, Mrs. Vita Petersen, New York [according to Mrs. Vita Petersen]. Sold by Justin K. Thannhauser, New York, to the Art Institute, 1963.