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Provenance

(Galerie Nebehay, Vienna); sold 1919 to Otto [d. 1926] and Eugenia Primavesi, Vienna;[1] acquired 1928 with other paintings from Eugenia Primavesi by Hugo or Otto Bernatzig (or Bernatzik), Vienna. Brought to the United States by Josef Urban [1872-1933], New York.[2] (Galérie St. Etienne, New York), possibly by 1959;[3] Otto [1894-1978] and Franziska [1899-1992] Kallir, New York; acquired 1978 through gift and purchase by NGA.

Exhibition History

1917
Österrikisk Konstutställning, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, September 1917.
1919
Galerie Nebehay, Vienna, 1919.
1920
Kunstschau, Vienna, 1920, Room IX, no. 48, repro.
1927
Ausstellung Oesterr. Kunst in den Niederlanden, 1927-1928, no. 14 (according to label removed from stretcher).
1928
Gedächtnis-Ausstellung Gustav Klimt, Wiener Secession, Vienna, 1928, no. 72.
1959
Gustav Klimt, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1959, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
1964
Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1964, no. 15, repro.
1965
Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1965, no. 24, repro.
1978
Aspects of Twentieth-Century Art, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1978-1979, no. 57, repro.
1985
Traum und Wirklichkeit--Wien 1870-1930, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, 1985, no. 15/5/26.
1987
Gustav Klimt, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels, 1987, no. 37, repro.
1989
Gustav Klimt: Drawings, Nassau County Museum of Fine Art, Roslyn, New York, 1989, not in catalogue.
1991
Gustav Klimt, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 1991-1992, no. 37, repro.
1992
Gustav Klimt, Kunsthaus Zürich, 1992, no. G59, repro.
1999
Saved from Europe: Otto Kallir and the History of the Galerie St. Etienne, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, 1999-2000, pl. 16.
2000
Art Nouveau, 1890-1914, Victoria and Albert Museum, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, 2000-2001, no. 277 (shown only in Washington).
2001
Gustave Klimt: Modernism in the Making, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2001, no. 34, repro.
2005
Klimt, Schiele, Moser, Kokoschka. Vienne 1900, Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, 2005-2006, unnumbered catalogue, repro., as Bébé (Berceau).
2008
Gustave Klimt: Painting, Design and Modern Life, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, 2008, unnumbered catalogue, fig. 171.
2009
Gustave Klimt. In Search of the "Total Artwork", Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Arts Center, 2009, no. 33, repro.
2011
Vienna: Art & Design - Klimt, Schiele, Hoffmann, Loos, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2011, unnumbered catalogue, repro.
2012
Klimt's Golden Rider and Vienna: Celebrating the 150th Anniversary of Klimt's Birth, Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya; Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki City; Utsunomiya Museum of Art, 2012-2013.
2015
Collection Conversations: The Chrysler and the National Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, 2015, no catalogue.
2017
KLIMT & RODIN: An Artistic Encounter, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, 2017-2018, no. 29, repro.
2019
Gustav Klimt: Vienna - Japan 1900, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum; Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, 2019.

Bibliography

1984
Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 616, no. 951, color repro.
1985
European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 216, repro.
1989
Strick, Jeremy. Twentieth Century Painting and Sculpture: Selections for the Tenth Anniversary of the East Building. Washington, D.C., 1989: repro. 32, 33.
1997
Southgate, M. Therese. The Art of JAMA: One Hundred Covers and Essays from The Journal of the American Medical Association. St. Louis, 1997: 100-101, color repro.
2000
Art Nouveau, 1890-1914. Exh. cat. Victoria & Albert Museum, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum. London, 2000: no. 277.
2012
Clegg, Elizabeth. "War and peace at the Stockholm 'Austrian Art Exhibition' of 1917." The Burlington Magazine CLIV (October 2012): 686, repro.

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