Girl Picking Cherries, 1891

Not on View

Medium

red chalk with stumping on light brown paper

Dimensions

overall: 74.5 x 50.7 cm (29 5/16 x 19 15/16 in.)

Credit Line

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon

Accession Number

1995.47.62

Artists / Makers

Berthe Morisot (artist) French, 1841 - 1895

Image Use

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Inscription

lower right stamped in black: Berthe Morisot

Provenance

Mme. M. Motte, Switzerland; Alex Maguy, Paris; Mr. [d. 1970] and Mrs. Lester Francis Avnet, Great Neck, Long Island, NY; (sale, Sotheby's, London, 1 December 1965, no. 44C); (purchased by Colnaghi); purchased by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon, Upperville, VA; gift to NGA, 1995.

Associated Names

Avnet, Lester Francis Mr. and Mrs.
Colnaghi & Co., Ltd., P. & D.
Maguy, Alex
Mellon, Paul

Exhibition History

1954: Trésors des Collections Romandes. Musée Rath, Geneva, 1954: no. 243.

1987: Berthe Morisot Impressionist. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mount Holyoke, MA and National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1987, no. 91.

2002: "Berthe Morisot", Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, 2002, no. 129, 384-386.

2006: Berthe Morisot: Regards Pluriels / Plural Vision, Musée de Lodève, France, 2006, no. 23.

2006: Berthe Morisot: Regards Pluriels = Plural Vision, Musée de Lodève, Lodève, 2006, no. 23.

2008: Woman Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt; California Palace of the Legion of Honor, The Fine Arts Museusm of San Francisco, 2008, unnumbered catalogue.