On the Balcony

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Prints and Drawings

1871/72

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841-1895

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Artist: Berthe Morisot
Title: On the Balcony
Place: France (Artist's nationality)
Date: 1871–1872
Medium: Watercolor, with touches of gouache, over graphite, on off-white wove paper
Inscriptions: Stamped lower right: "B.M.".
Dimensions: 20.6 × 17.3 cm (8 1/8 × 6 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. Charles Netcher in memory of Charles Netcher II
Reference Number: 1933.1
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Monique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1933), p. 127, no. 204.
Bulletin of The Art Institute of Chicago 27 (1933), p. 97, no. 103 (ill.).
D. Rouart, Correspondance de Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1950), pp. 118-124.
Bataille and Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1961), no. 618, fig. 598.
Harold Joachim, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (Chicago, 1979), pp. 72-73, no. 4B9.
Réalités, 10 (March-April 1980), p. 32.
Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 25, 26, 28, and 118 (ill.).
Motherhood, Miniature Series (Philadelphia, 1991).
Susan L Feagin and Patrick Maynard, Aesthetics (Oxford, 1997).
Lisa DiCaprio and Merry Wiesner, Lives and Voices: Sources in European Women’s History (Boston, 2001).
Sally Sieloff Magnan, Paroles (New York, 2002).
Carol Armstrong, Manet Manette (New Haven, 2002), pp. 203-04, fig. 97.
Richard Shone, French Impressionist Painting: The Janice H. Levin Collection (New York, 2003).
Michael Skelton, “Dabour’s New View: Child on a Second Empire Balcony as a Visual Link from Impressionism to Modernism,” Origins of Modernity, exh. cat. (Rock Island, 2005), pp. 29-30, (ill.).
Vistas de Espana: American Views of Art and Life in Spain, 1860-1914 (New Haven, 2006).

Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, “Berthe Morisot,” March 5-21, 1896, cat. 306 (?).
Paris, L. Dru, “Berthe Morisot,” 1926, cat. 58.
Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, “Berthe Morisot,” 1929, cat. 128.
New York, De Hauke and Company, “Exhibition of Watercolors and Drawings by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary French Artists,” December 1929, cat. 19.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “10th International Watercolor Exposition,” March 20-April 20, 1930, cat. 51.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “A Century of Progress Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture,” June 20-November 20, 1933, no. 924.
Chicago Arts Club, “Berthe Morisot,” March 24-April 7, 1943, cat. 2.
San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, “Nineteenth Century French Drawings,” March 8-April 6, 1947, p. 51, cat. 79 (ill.).
Paris, Musée de Orangerie, “De David à Toulouse-Lautrec,” 1955, cat. 85.
New York, Wildenstein and Company, “Master Drawings from the Art Institute of Chicago,” October 17-November 30, 1963, n.p., cat. 112.
Palm Beach, Fla., The Society of the Four Arts, “Drawings and Prints,” January 4-27, 1973, cat. 34.
Birmingham, Ala., Birmingham Museum of Art, “Berthe Morisot,” March-April 1973.
Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, “Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago,” January 5–27, 1974, cat. 34.
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. 67 (ill.).
Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, “Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago,” February 10-April 10, 1977, pp. 118-119, cat. 56 (ill.).
South Hadley, Mass, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, “Berthe Morisot: Impressionist,” March 14-May 9, 1988, cat. 14, cat. by Charles Stuckey and William P. Scott, et. al..
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Graphic Tours: Travel and Nineteenth Century French Works on Paper,” January 14-April 17, 1994.
Lille, France, Palais de Beaux-Arts de Lille, “Berthe Morisot,” March 8-June 9, 2002, cat. 12, pp. 124-125; Martigny, Switzerland, Fondation Pierre Gainadda, June 20-September 19, 2002.
The Art Institute of Chicago, “Impressionism, Fashion & Modernity”, June 26-September 22, 2013, hors cat.

Estate of the artist [Lugt Suppl. 388a]; by descent to her daughter, Mme. Ernst Rouart (née Julie Manet; d. 1966), to around 1930 [according to Angoulvent 1933]. De Hauke and Company, New York, by 1930 [the registrar’s card states that de Hauke lent the drawing to the 1930 exhibition at the Art Institute]. Sold by Jacques Seligmannn & Co., New York, to the Art Institute, 1933.

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