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Property of Thomas and Lore Firman

Berthe Morisot

La Jatte de lait

Auction Closed

May 18, 09:51 PM GMT

Estimate

800,000 - 1,200,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

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.

Claude Monet, Paris (acquired from the artist in 1892)
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
Roger Marx, “Les femmes peintres et l'impressionnisme, Berthe Morisot,” Gazette des Arts, December 1907, p. 507, illustrated 
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, Boussod, Valadon et Cie., Exposition de tableaux, pastels et dessins par Berthe Morisot, 1892, no. 2
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