
Public collection via the Art Institute of Chicago
AT-00002338Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan
Provenance
Possibly Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914), Paris, probably after 1902, but by Sept. 1906. Paul Cassirer (1871–1926), Berlin, by 1910 [according to New York, 1983 exh. cat.]; given to his wife Tilla Durieux-Cassirer (née Ottilie Godefroy; 1880–1971), Berlin, by 1922 [Walter Feilchenfeldt, May 30, 2001, in curatorial object file; and Édouard Manet, 1922]; returned to the Cassirer family, 1926 [Tilla Durieux, Meine ersten neunzig Jahre (Herbig, 1971]; placed on consignment by Paul Cassirer’s daughter, Suzanne Aimée Bernfeld (née Cassirer; 1896–1963), to Walter Feilchenfeldt (1894–1953) of Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Mar. 1935; sold to Margarete Oppenheim (1857–1935), Berlin, June 1935 [Walter Feilchenfeldt, June 9, 2003, in curatorial object file]; by descent to her stepdaughter, Martha Oppenheim–von Simson (1882–1971), Berlin [Vita Petersen, telephone conversation with Suzanne Folds McCullagh, June 28, 2001]; to her daughter, Vita Petersen (née von Simson; 1915–2011), New York, by 1937 [Vita Petersen, telephone conversation with Suzanne Folds McCullagh, June 28, 2001]; to Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976), New York [Thannhauser stock card no. 2874; and Janet Briner, Silva-Casa Foundation, to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10, 2001, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1963.
Exhibition history
Berlin, Paul Cassirer, Ausstellung, Sept. 22–Oct. 22, 1906, cat. 22. Stuttgart, Manet-Monet Ausstellung: Sammlung des Französischen Opernsängers Faure, Nov. 9–Dec. 1906, cat. 18. Munich, Galerie Heinemann, Manet-Monet Ausstellung, Jan. 1907, p. 9, cat. 20. Berlin, Ausstellungshaus am Kurfürstendamm, Der Einundzwanzigsten ausstellung der Berliner Secession, Nov. 1910–Jan. 1911, p. 53, cat. 659. Berlin, Hugo Perls, Von Delacroix bis Picasso, Feb.–Mar. 1925, cat. 81. Paris, Bernheim-Jeune, Exposition d’oeuvres de Manet, Apr. 14–May 4, 1928, p. 14, cat. 20. New York, De Hauke & Co., Exhibition of Works by Nineteenth Century and Contemporary French Artists: Watercolors and Drawings, Mar. 1–23, 1929, cat. 12. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Édouard Manet 1832–1883, Nov. 3–Dec. 11, 1966, p. 124, cat. 110 (ill.); Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 13–Feb. 19, 1967. Palm Beach, Fla., Society of Four Arts, Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago, Jan. 5–27, 1974, cat. 30. Art Institute of Chicago, The Helen Regenstein Collection of European Drawings, summer 1974, pp. 150–51, cat. 74 (ill.). Paris, Musée du Louvre, Dessins français de l’Art Institute de Chicago de Watteau à Picasso, Oct. 15, 1976–Jan. 17, 1977, n.p., cat. 55 (ill.). Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Französische Zeichnungen aus dem Art Institute of Chicago, Feb. 10–Apr. 10, 1977, pp. 114–15, cat. 54 (ill.). Art Institute of Chicago, European Portraits, 1600–1900 in the Art Institute of Chicago, July 8–Sept. 11, 1978, pp. 120–22, cat. 32 (ill.). Paris, Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais, Manet 1832–1883, Apr. 22–Aug. 8, 1983, pp. 368–69, cat. 145 (ill.); Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Sept. 10–Nov. 27, 1983. Art Institute of Chicago, Great Drawings from The Art Institute of Chicago: The Harold Joachim Years, 1958–1983, July 24–Sept. 30, 1985, pp. 148–49, cat. 67 (ill.); Saint Louis Art Museum, Mar. 10–May 16, 1986. Art Institute of Chicago, Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity, June 26–Sept. 22, 2013, p. 287 (ill.).
Publications
Karl Scheffler, “Die Zeichnenden Künste in Berlin,” Kunst und Kunstler 9 (1911), pp. 178, 183 (ill.). Édouard Manet, facsimiles-reproductions (Marees-Gesellschaft, 1922), pl. 10. Adolphe Tabarant, Manet: Histoire catalographique (Montaigne, 1931) pp. 272, 539–40, no. 59. Paul Jamot and Georges Wildenstein, Manet, vol. 1 (Les Beaux-arts, édition d’études et de documents, 1932), p. 148, under no. 238. Adolphe Tabarant, Manet et ses oeuvres (Gallimard, 1947), p. 258, no. 611. Kurt Martin, Edouard Manet: Aquarelle und Pastelle (Phoebus, 1958), no. 12 (ill.). Pierre Courthion, Edouard Manet (Abrams, 1962), p. 26, fig. 34. “Accessions of American and Canadian Museums,” The Art Quarterly 27, 1 (1964), pp. 100 (ill.), 107. Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report (1963–64), p. 21 (ill. on cover). “La Chronique des arts,” Supplément a la Gazette des Beaux-Arts, no. 1153 (Feb. 1965), p. 59, no. 235 (ill.). Critica d’Arte 14, 85 (Mar. 1967), p. 8 (ill.). Jean Selz, XIXth Century Drawings and Watercolors (Crown, 1968), p. 130 (ill.). Alain de Leiris, The Drawings of Edouard Manet (University of California Press, 1969), p. 126, no. 434, fig. 304. John Maxon, The Art Institute of Chicago (Abrams, 1970), p. 158 (ill.). Gottfried Lindemann, translated by Gerald Onn, Prints and Drawings: A Pictorial History (Praeger, 1970), pp. 301 (ill.), 307, and 310. Denis Rouart and Daniel Wildenstein, Edouard Manet: Catalogue raisonné, vol. 2, Pastels, aquarelles et dessins (Bibliothèque des arts, 1975), pp. 146–47, no. 391 (ill.). Harold Joachim and Sandra Haller Olsen, French Drawings and Sketchbooks of the Nineteenth Century (University of Chicago Press, 1979), p. 68, no. 4A7. Richard Brettell, French Impressionists (Art Institute of Chicago, 1987), pp. 25, 29 (ill.), 118. Theresa A. Gronberg, Manet: A Retrospective (Hugh Lauter Levin, 1988), pp. 108 (ill.), 109. Horst Keller, Edouard Manet (Bruckmann, 1989), pp. 85, 96, 113, fig. 85, 174. Françoise Cachin, Manet (Profils de l’Art, 1990), p. 102, fig. 2. Éric Darragon, Manet (Editions Citadelles, 1991), p. 220, fig. 147. Beth Archer Brombert, Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat (Little, Brown, 1996), before p. 139, fig. 32. Suzanne Folds McCullagh, “‘A Lasting Monument’: The Regenstein Collection at The Art Institute of Chicago,” The Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 26, 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 9, 11, fig. 7. Sylvie Patry, Hugues Wilhelm, and Sylvie Patin, Berthe Morisot, 1841–1895, with the assistance of Michèle Moyne, exh. cat. (Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002), p. 470, fig. 1 (ill.). Gilles Néret, Édouard Manet 1832–1883: The First of the Moderns (Taschen, 2003), pp. 52 (ill.), 55. “Den Sinnen ein magischer Rausch,” Kunstsalon Cassirer, Die Ausstellungen 1905–1908 (Nimbus, Kunst und Bücher, 2013), pp. 247 (ill.), 769, no. 22. “Manet, Cat. 15, Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan,” in Manet Paintings and Works on Paper at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2017), https://publications.artic.edu/manet/reader/manetart/section/140020.
Data retrieved from the Art Institute of Chicago on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Manet / French, 1832-1883
- Date
- 1874
- Medium
- Watercolor over traces of graphite on cream wove paper
- Dimensions
- 20.9 × 16.8 cm (8 1/4 × 6 5/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- watercolor
- Style
- Impressionism
- Place
- France
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Credit line
- Helen Regenstein Collection
- Accession no.
- 1963.812
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