About This Artwork

Henri Matisse
French, 1869-1954

Girl in Plumed Hat (Mlle Antoinette), 1919

Pen and black ink, with brush and black ink on ivory wove paper
270 x 366 mm
Signed recto, lower right corner, in graphite: "Henri-Matisse"
Gift of the Arts Club of Chicago, 1927.1616

© 2009 Succession H. Matisse / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

The Art Institute of Chicago, "A Century of Progress," June 1–November 1, 1933, p. 101, cat. 1034, as Study for White Plumes.

Iowa City, University of Iowa, "Six Centuries of Master Drawings," 1951, cat. 202.

Los Angeles, University of California Art Galleries, "Henri Matisse: Retrospective" January 5–February 27, 1966, pp. 6, 148 (ill.), 197, cat. 163, as The Plumed Hat traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, March 11–April 24, 1966 and Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, May 11–June 26, 1966.

Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse as Draughtsman," 1971, p. 93 (ill.), cat. 36.

Paris, Musee National d'Art Moderne, "Dessins de Matisse," May-September 1975, cat. 62; traveled to Brussels, Palais des Beaux Arts, October-November 1975, cat. 56.

Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, "Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago," February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 170-171, cat. 82 (ill.).

London, Hayward Gallery, "The Sculpture and Drawings of Henri Matisse," October 4, 1984–Janary 6, 1985, pp. 173 (ill.), 263, cat. 49, as Antoinette Wearing Plumed Hat; travelled to NewYork, Museum of Modern Art, February 27–May 14, 1985.

Chicago, Arts Club, "Portrait of an Era: Rue Winterbotham Carpenter and the Arts Club of Chicago, 1916–1931," September 15–November 1, 1986, n.p., cat. 8 (ill.).

Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, "Themes and Variations," December 11, 1993-February 13, 1994.

Publication History

Alfred H. Barr,Jr., Matisse: His Art and His Public (New York, 1951), pp. 201, 429 (ill.), as The Plumed Hat, Le chapeau à plumes..

J. Meder, Mastery of Drawing (1978), p. 298 (ill.).

Gilles Néret, Matisse (1991), p. 111 (ill.), cat. 167, as Antoinette with a Plumed Hat, Right Profile.

Guy-Patrice Dauberville and Michel Dauberville, Matisse II (Paris, 1995), pp. 762, 763 (ill.), 1436, 1461, and 1465, cat. 304.

Ownership History

Sold by the artist to Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, May 13, 1925 [Dauberville 1995]; Pierre Matisse, New York, December 29, 1925 [Dauberville 1995]. Given by the Arts Club, Chicago, to the Art Institute, 1927.