Description
This large-scale drawing is a study for the painting The Cherry Tree (1891, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris). The model is Berthe Morisot’s niece, Jeanne Gobillard, who lifts a basket to gather fruit. The light passages of yellow pastel suggest patches of sunlight reflecting off her hat, hair, and dress. The pink paper Morisot used adds additional luminosity to this outdoor scene.
Provenance
Estate of the artist [stamp (Lugt 1826) recto, lower right, in black]; J. M. Rouart, Paris; sold, Galerie Charpentier, Paris, Feb. 23, 1954, lot 46. Sold, Sotheby’s, London, Mar. 27, 1985, lot 317, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA.; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.
Accession Number
186319
Medium
Pastel on pink laid paper with red fibrous inclusions (pieced at bottom), stretched and edge mounted on a honeycomb paper panel
Dimensions
45.9 × 83.8 cm (18 1/8 × 33 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Credit Line
Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection