Young Girl Holding a Basket

Prints and Drawings

1891

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895

This large-scale drawing is a study for the painting The Cherry Tree (1891, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris). The model is Berthe Morisot’s niece, Jeanne Gobillard, who lifts a basket to gather fruit. The light passages of yellow pastel suggest patches of sunlight reflecting off her hat, hair, and dress. The pink paper Morisot used adds additional luminosity to this outdoor scene.

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Artist: Berthe Morisot
Title: Young Girl Holding a Basket
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.: Made 1891
Medium: Pastel on pink laid paper with red fibrous inclusions (pieced at bottom), stretched and edge mounted on a honeycomb paper panel
Dimensions: 45.9 × 83.8 cm (18 1/8 × 33 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.989
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M.-L. Bataille and G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot: Catalogue des peintures, pastel et aquarelles (Paris: Beaux-Arts, 1961), p. 59, no. 571, fig. 563.
Charles F. Stuckey and William P. Scott, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist (Hudson-Hills, 1987), p. 152.
Suzanne Folds McCullagh (ed.), Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 2006), p. 127, cat. 88 (ill.).

Paris, Durand-Ruel, “Berthe Morisot,” Mar. 1896, cat. 180.
Paris, Galerie Dru, “Portraits et Figures de Femme,” 1928, cat. 4.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 127, cat. 88 (ill.).

Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 1826) recto, lower right, in black]; J. M. Rouart, Paris; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Feb. 23, 1954, lot 46. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 27, 1985, lot 317, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

Bataille & Wildenstein 571

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