Woman in a Garden

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Woman in a Garden

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)LinkedCulture matchlcp-bb5b0754b812

Date
1882–83
Medium
Oil on canvas
Culture
France
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Institution
Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID
153798

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This work was probably begun in the summer of 1882, when Berthe Morisot and her family rented a house in Bougival, a picturesque village along the Seine River in northern France. Morisot spent the season there with her husband, Eugène Manet (artist Édouard Manet's brother), and their nearly four-year-old daughter, Julie. The child wearing a straw hat in the background of this painting is likely based on Julie, while the identity of the main figure is unknown. Morisot applied paint as if she were making a landscape in the Impressionist style, slashing acid green pigments and bluish ochers across the canvas to transcribe the effects of dappled sunlight without differentiating between the strokes used for the figure and setting.

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Credit line
A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
Provenance
With the artist until her death in 1895; by descent to the artist’s daughter Julie and her husband Ernest Rouart; by descent to their son, Denis Rouart; sold to Nathan Cummings, 1955, Palm Beach, Florida [this and the following information provided by Consolidated Foods Corporation, Sara Lee Corporation; see also Chicago 2000]; given to Mrs. Robert B. Mayer, Chicago in the 1970s; sold to Consolidated Foods Corporation, Nathan Cummings Collection, 1983; given to the Art Institute, 1999.

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AAT300033618

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