Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00001056Forêt de Compiègne
Inscriptions
Stamped lower right: Berthe Morisot
Provenance
Mme Ernest Rouart (née Julie Manet, the artist’s daughter, died 1966), Paris. E. and A. Silberman Galleries, Inc., New York; sold Sotheby’s Parke & Bernet, New York, April 17, 1969, lot 125 (ill.) to Estelle P. McCormick, Philadelphia; bequeathed to the Art Institute, 1978.
Exhibition history
Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Berthe Morisot, 1896, cat. 135. Geneva, Galerie Motte, Exposition Berthe Morisot, June 12 - 30, 1951, cat. 12. Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, September 6 - November 29, 1987, cat. 61 (ill.); Fort Worth, TX, Kimbell Art Museum, December 12, 1987 - February 21, 1988; South Hudley, MA, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, March 14 - May 9, 1988. Paris, France, Marmottan-Monet Museum, Berthe Morisot: 1841-1895, March 7- July 1, 2012. cat. 58.
Publications
M.-L. Bataille and G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1961), p. 35, no. 183, fig. 191. Impressionist and Modern Paintings, Parke Burnet Galleries, New York, auction cat., April 17, 1969, under lot 125. A. Clairet, D. Montalant, and Y. Rouart, Berthe Morisot 1841 - 1895 Catalogue Raisonné de l’Oeuvre Peint (Paris, 1997), no. 187. Marianne Mathieu, Berthe Morisot: 1841-1895, exh. cat. (Yale UP, 2012), p, 168, cat. 58.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
- Date
- 1885
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 54.2 × 64.8 cm (21 3/8 × 25 1/2 in.); Framed: 81.3 × 92.1 × 8.3 cm (32 × 36 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- oil on canvas
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Bequest of Estelle McCormick
- Accession no.
- 1978.422
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