Girl with Cherries

c. 1870

Eva Gonzalès
French, 1849-1883

The daughter of an affluent and cultured family, Eva Gonzalès was Édouard Manet’s first and only official pupil. Girl with Cherries, which features a freely painted figure lit dramatically against a dark background, shows a clear debt to Manet’s contemporary Spanish-style works. The model wears the frilled linen cap and loose, striped gown of an 18th-century servant girl—an occupation further suggested by her rolled-up sleeve.

Status: On View, Gallery 222
Department: Painting and Sculpture of Europe

Artist: Eva Gonzalès
Title: Girl with Cherries
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1865–1875
Medium: Oil on canvas
Inscriptions: Inscribed lower right: Eva Gonzalès
Dimensions: 56.2 × 47.4 cm (22 1/16 × 18 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Larned Coburn Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 1940.32
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W. S. Sparrow, Woman Painters of the World, 1905, p. 231, as The Fruit Girl.
F. A. Sweet, “Girl With Cherries by Eva Gonzales,” The Art Institute Bulletin 34 (1940), pp. 73-75 (ill.), as Girl with Cherries.
The Maynard Walker Gallery, 1946, np (ill.), as Girl with Red Cherries.
Marie-Caroline Sainsaulieu, Eva Gonzalès 1849-1883: étude critique et catalouge raisonné (Paris, 1990), no. 59.
Carol Jane Grant, “Eva Gonzelès (1849-1883): An Examination of the Artist’s Style and Subject Matter,” vol. 1, Ph. D. diss. (The Ohio State University, 1994), p. 123.
The Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 6, pp. 34–35 (ill.).

San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Vanity Fair: The Exhibition of Styles in Woman’s Headdress and Adornment Through the Ages, June 16-July 16, 1942, cat. 39, as Young Woman with Cherries.
Traveling exhibition organized by American Federation of Art, 19th Century French Paintings, June 1948-June 1949, traveled to Dayton Art Institute and Brooks Memorial Art Gallery [see shipping order, copy in curatorial file]
San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Art Institute, The French Tradition, February 5- March 12, 1961.
Tokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from The Art Institute of Chicago, 1985, traveled to Fukoka Art Museum and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, 1986, cat. 28 (ill.), as Girl with Cherries, c. 1870.
Leningrad (St. Petersburg), State Hermitage Museum, Masterpieces of Western European Painting of the XVIth–XXth Centuries from the Museums of the European Countries and USA, October 17-November 30, 1989
Stockholm Sweden, National Museum, Goya Retrospective, November 4, 1994-January 8, 1995
Madrid, Museo Nacional del Prado, 250th Anniversary of Goya’s Birth, March 29-May 30, 1996.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Goya: Un Regard Libre, April 8-July 11, 1999.
Musée de Dieppe, Visiting MAsterpiece: Eva Gonzalès, Girl with Cherries, September 3, 2003 - September 26, 2004, no cat.
Fort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29–November 2, 2008, cat. 6 (ill.).

William M. Chase, New York; his sale, New York, Anderson Galleries, 1896, lot 1095, as Fruit Girl; sold to Durand-Ruel, New York [this and the following information acc. to Sainsaulieu 1990]; sold to Miss M. Mott, Randor, Pa., February 15, 1904; given to Mrs. Haven Emerson [acc. to information provided by Walker Galleries]. Maynard Walker Galleries, New York [see label on reverse and Maynard Walker Galleries 1946]; sold to the Art Institute, 1940 [see sale receipt dated March 12, 1940, copy in curatorial file].

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