Berthe Morisot
Young Woman

ArtistFrench, 1841–1895
CultureFrench
Titles
  • Young Woman
Date1871
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsCanvas: 21 1/2 × 18 1/8 in. (54.6 × 46 cm)
Frame: 31 1/8 × 27 5/8 × 3 3/8 in. (79.1 × 70.2 × 8.6 cm)
Credit LineJohn A. and Audrey Jones Beck Collection, museum purchase funded by the Audrey Jones Beck Accessions Endowment
Object number2016.339
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
222 Beck Galleries
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ProvenanceCollection Jos. Hessel, Paris; sold to Jules Strauss, Paris; [Hotel Drouot, December 15, 1932, lot 55]; bought by Thierry de La Noue, Paris; with Galerie Schmidt, Paris, Ca. 1969 until at least 1990; private collection; [Sotheby's New Yor, May 3, 2006, lot 19, bought in]; [Hirschl & Adler, until January 4, 2012]; bought by Marie Yeates, Houston; [Christie's London, February 4, 2015, lot 30, bought in]; Marie Yeates, 2016; purchased by MFAH, 2016.
Exhibition History"Portraits et figures de femmes; Ingres a Picasso," Cercle de la Renaissance, Paris, 1928.

"Berthe Morisot," Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1929.

"Van Gogh et ses contemporains," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,1930.

"Cent ans de peinture francaise," Galerie Schmit, Paris, 1969.

"Portraits francais, XIVe et XX e Siecles," Galerie Schmit, Paris, 1974.

"Choix d'un Amateur, XIX - XXeme Siecles," Galerie Schmit, Paris, 1977.

"25 Ans d'Expositions: Maitres Francais XIXeme siecles," Galerie Schmit, Paris, 1990.

"The Impressionists: A Private View," Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris, February 13–July 6, 2014.

"Berthe Morisot: Impressionist Original," Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, October 20, 2019–January 12, 2020.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
It is signed "Berthe Morisot" on the upper left.
Signed in the image upper left: Berthe Morisot
see Inscription.
Catalogue raisonnéA. Clairet, D. Montalant, Y. Rouart, Berthe Morisot, Cat. rais., 1997, no. 22, p. 123.
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