Berthe Morisot
La Jatte de lait
Estimate:
800,000 - 1,200,000 USD
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Property of Thomas and Lore Firman
Berthe Morisot
1841 - 1895
La Jatte de lait
signed B. Morisot (lower right)
oil on canvas
21⅝ by 22⅛ in
54.9 by 56.2 cm.
Executed in Mézy in 1890.
The canvas is unlined. The edges are taped. The colors are fresh and the surface is clean. There are a few small areas of fine craquelure located mainly in the lower register of the canvas visible only under close inspection. There are areas of paint shrinkage in the center and top right quadrants. Under UV light inspection, small areas of inpainting fluoresce along the four edges of the canvas, as well as a few small dots on the figure's face. This work is in very good condition.
Framed: 31 5/8 by 32 in. (80.3 by 81.3 cm.)
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Michel Monet, Paris (by descent from the above)
Wildenstein & Co., New York
Private Collection
Sotheby’s New York, 11 November 1999, lot 119 (consigned by the above)
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Louis Rouart, “Berthe Morisot,” Art & Décoration, May 1908, p. 170, illustrated
Roger Marx, Maîtres d'hier et d'aujourd'hui, Paris, 1914, p. 318
Monique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 1933, no. 421
Denis Rouart, Berthe Morisot, Paris, 1954, pl. 51, illustrated
Marie-Louise Bataille and George Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles, Paris, 1961, no. 251, fig. 243, illustrated
Denis Rouart, ed., Berthe Morisot: The Correspondence with Her Family and Friends, Mount Kisco, 1987, p. 234
Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant and Yves Rouart, Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint, Paris, 1997, no. 255, p. 240, illustrated
Paris, Durand-Ruel, Madame Eugène Manet, Exposition de son oeuvre, 1896, no. 96
Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Expositions des oeuvres de Berthe Morisot, 1929, no. 43
San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Women Impressionists: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracquemond, 2008
Philadelphia, The Barnes Foundation; Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art; Québec City, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec and Paris, Musée d’Orsay, Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, 2018-2019, no. 59, p. 166, illustrated in color