{"data":{"id":11723,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/11723","is_boosted":true,"title":"Woman at Her Toilette","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBwAFAPUAAE9MQV1XRl5YRmNdT2JgVGplV3RtW3JsX35wXW9rYHl3cX17eYJ4a4+Hd4GBfoaDf4iEfY6JgYmKhZuXjZWSkJaSkJydlpqZmZqamp+dmpqbnamelqCemqShk6Cgm6ujnK6nn7m0rbSzsgAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAHAAUAAAYhwABDYnBYOgTFAvHAcA6JyIZyyQwAFZHGMykIPiEQpBEEADs=","width":4946,"height":3703,"alt_text":"Painted portrait dominated by loose, large brushstrokes of a woman, seen from the back, wearing a gauzy white off-the-shoulder dress and black choker, blond hair swept up, examining herself in a mirror at left. The background is a feathered swirl suggesting floral pattern in cool pale tones of gray, purple, pink, and blue."},"main_reference_number":"1924.127","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1870,"date_end":1880,"date_display":"1875\u201380","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Berthe Morisot (French, 1841\u20131895)","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p><em>In Woman at Her Toilette<\/em>, Berthe Morisot provided a glimpse into the private life of a Parisienne\u2014one of the fashionable, urban women who epitomized modernity in late nineteenth-century France. The \ufb01gure is shown at her vanity table after a ball, still wearing her earrings and a velvet ribbon around her neck as she reaches up to take down her chignon hairstyle. In the background, Morisot\u2019s soft, feathery brushstrokes suggest a \ufb02 oral-patterned bedspread and wallpaper. The artist applied the same gauzy technique to the mirror, obscuring the \ufb01 gure\u2019s re\ufb02ection and thus disrupting the trope of women gazing into mirrors as a symbol of vanity. Morisot signed her name along the bottom of the mirror, an enigmatic detail that may suggest that the \ufb01gure is a stand-in for the artist herself.<\/p>\n<p>Consistent with the Impressionist aesthetic that Morisot fervently espoused, <em>In Woman at Her Toilette<\/em> attempts to capture the essence of modern life in summary, understated terms. Morisot exhibited in seven of the eight Impressionist group shows; in 1880 this painting was included in the \ufb01fth exhibition, where her work received high acclaim. In addition to domestic interiors such as this one, Morisot\u2019s pictorial realm included studies of women and children, gardens, \ufb01elds, and vacation homes by the sea.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Rendered with feathery brushstrokes in shades of lavender, pink, blue, white, and gray, this Impressionist painting captures a subject often explored by male artists of the day but seldom broached by the period's few women artists. Morisot presents a decidely female perspective, intimate yet not eroticized. She signed her name along the bottom of the mirror, as if to suggest that the image in her painting is as ephemeral as a silvery re\ufb02ection.","dimensions":"60.3 \u00d7 80.4 cm (23 3\/4 \u00d7 31 5\/8 in.); Framed: 85.8 \u00d7 105.5 \u00d7 10.5 cm (33 3\/4 \u00d7 41 1\/2 \u00d7 4 1\/8 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":80,"height":60,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":10,"width":105,"height":85,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":"Inscribed lower left: Berthe Morisot","credit_line":"Stickney Fund","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"W. Dewhurst, \u201cImpressionist Painting: Its Genesis and Development,\u201d International Studio 19 (May, 1903), pp. 165, 168 (ill.).\n\nRoger Marx, \u201cLes Femmes Peintres et l\u2019impressionisme, Berthe Morisot,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts, per. 3, vol. 38 (December 1907), pp. 497 (ill.), 498.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago Annual Report 1924 (Chicago, 1924), ill.\n\nR.M.F., \u201c A Painting by Berthe Morisot,\u201d The Art Institute of Chicago Bulletin 18 (1924), pp. 50, 51, (ill.)\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Guide to the Paintings in the Permanent Collection, (Chicago, 1925), p. 65 (ill.).\n\nMonique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1931), pp. 55, 121, no. 83.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Handbook (Chicago, 1932), pp. 62, ill. 164.\n\nD.C. Rich, \u201cFranz\u00f6sische Impressionisten im Art Institute zu Chicago,\u201d Pantheon 11 (March 1933), pp. 77 (ill.),78.\n\nLionello Venturi, Les Archives de l\u2019impressionisme vol. 2 (Paris, 1939), p. 257.\n\nHans Huth, \u201cImpressionism Comes to America,\u201d Gazette des Beaux-Arts, s\u00e9r. 6, vol. 29 (April, 1946), pp. 225-252, fig. 17.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Brief Guide to the Collections (Chicago, 1956), p. 34.  \n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, Paintings in the Art Institute, A Catalogue of the Picture Collection (Chicago, 1961), pp. 340, ill. p. 288.\n\nM.-L. Bataille and Georges Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot: Catalogue des peintures, pastels, aquarelles (Paris, 1961), no. 84, pl. 37.\n\nJean Dominique Rey, Berthe Morisot (New York, 1982), pp. 29, 35 (ill.), 37, 51.\n\nRichard R. Brettell, French Impressionists (Chicago, 1987), pp. 24 (det. ill.), 25, 27 (ill.), 118.\n\nAnne Higonnet, Berthe Moristot\u2019s Images of Women (Cambridge, 1992), pp. 106, 155, pl. 7.\n\nAlain Clairet et al., Berthe Morisot 1841-1895: Catalogue raisonn\u00e9 de l\u2019oeuvre peint (Montolivet, 1997), no. 85 (ill.).\n\nWendy Slatkin, Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the Present (Upper Saddle River, 1997), pp. 137-139 (ill.).\n\nRichard R. Brettell et al., Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1890, exh. cat.  (London, The National Gallery and Williamston, Mass., Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 2001), p. 91 (ill.).\n\nRichard R. Brettell and Anne-Brigitte Fonsmark, Gauguin and Impressionism, exh. cat. (Copenhagen, Ordrugpgaard, 2005\/Forth Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, 2005-6), p. 85, fig. 62.\n\nThe Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 19, pp. 58\u201359 (ill.).\n\nSylvie Patry, ed., Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Market (London: National Gallery Company, 2015), 134-35 (detail ill.), 145 fig. 95, 260 cat. 60.\n\nKang, Cindy, et. al., Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist, exh. cat. (Rizzoli Electa, 2018), 76, 78, 91, 93, 110, cat. 30.\n\nJason Farago, \"Images for a Hazy New Age: Mapping a Transformation in the Depiction of Women,\" New York Times, Nov. 23, 2018, c20 ill.\n\nSylvie Patry in Berthe Morisot, exh. cat. (Paris: Flammarion, 2019), 81, 86-87 cat. 37.\n\nNicole R. Myers, \"Morisot et la ffemme moderne,\" in Berth Morisot, exh. cat. (Paris: Flammarion, 2019), 180.\n\nMarianne Mathieu, ed., Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism, exh. cat. (London: Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2023), 1 (detail), 20, 33, 56, 65, 102-03 cat. 7.\n\nJames Rondeau, ed., Paintings at the Art Institute of Chicago: Highlights of the collection (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 75 (ill.).\n\nEmily A. Beeny, ed., Manet & Morisot, exh. cat. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2025), 45\u201346, 52 (detail ill.), 127, 227\u201328, 257, 297, pl. 45.","exhibition_history":"Possibly Paris, 2\u00e9me Exposition de Peinture (1), Apr. 1876. [see D. Rouart, Correspondence de Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1950), pp. 98, 257]\n\nParis, 5me Expostition de Peinture, 1880, cat. 115.\n\nParis, Durand-Ruel, Berthe Morisot, Exposition de son oeuvre, Mar. 1896, cat. 68.\n\nLondon, Durand-Ruel at the Grafton Galleries, A Selection From the Pictures by Boudin, C\u00e9zanne, Degas, Manet, Monet, Morisot, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, cat. 162 (ill.).\n\nPittsburgh, Penn., Carnegie Institute, Exhibition of Paintings \u00c9douard Manet, Pierre Renoir, Berthe Morisot, Oct.-Dec. 1924, cat. 29 (ill.).\n\nThe Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibitions of Paintings of Three Woman Painters, Nov. 1931, not listed in cat.\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1933, cat. 334 (ill.).\n\nThe Art Institute of Chicago, A Century of Progress: Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture, June 1-Nov. 1, 1934, cat. 257.\n\nThe Toledo Museum of Art, French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, Nov. 1934, cat. 11.\n\nNew York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, French Painting from David to Toulouse-Lautrec, Feb.-Mar. 1941, cat. 95 (ill.).\n\nThe Arts Club of Chicago, Berthe Morisot, Mar.-Apr. 1943, cat. 1.\n\nNew York, Wildenstien and Co., Berthe Morisot, Nov.-Dec. 10, 1960, cat. 12 (ill.).\n\nNew York, Wildenstein and Co., Paris\u2013New York: A Continuing Romance, Nov. 3-Dec. 19, 1977, cat. 76 (ill.).\n\nSouthampton, New York, The Parrish Art Museum, William Merritt Chase in the Company of Friends, May 12- July 29, 1979, cat. 79 (ill.). \n\nSt. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Arts, Paris in the Belle Epoque: People and Places, Mar. 1-Apr. 6, 1980, cat. 56 (ill.).\n\nAlbi, Mus\u00e9e Toulouse- Lautrec, Tr\u00e9sors impressionnistes du Mus\u00e9e de Chicago, June 27-Aug. 31, 1980, cat. 23 (ill.).\n\nTokyo, The Seibu Museum of Art, The Impressionist Tradition: Masterpieces from the Art Institute of Chicago, Oct. 18-Dec. 17, 1985, cat. 21 (ill.); Fukuoka Art Museum, Jan. 5-Feb. 2, 1986 and Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Mar. 4-Apr. 13, 1986.\n\nWashington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, The New Painting: Impressionism 1874-1886, Jan. 17- Apr. 6, 1986, cat. 96 (ill.); Fine Art Museum of San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Apr. 19- July 6, 1986.\n\nWashington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, Sep. 6-Nov. 29, 1987, cat. 35; Fort Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, Dec. 12, 1987-Feb. 21, 1988; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, Mar. 14-May 9, 1988, shown in Washington and Forth Worth only.\n\nLeningrad [St. Petersburg], Hermitage Museum, Ot Delakrua do Matissa: shedevry frantsuzsko\u012d zhivopici XIX-nachala XX veka, iz Muieia Metropoliten v Niu-\u012corke i Khudozhestvennogo Instituta v Chikago [From Delacroix to Matisse: Great Paintings From the XIX century to the Beginning of the XXth century From Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago], Mar. 15-May 19, 1988, cat. 18; Moscow, Pushkin Museum, June 10-July 30, 1988.\n\nLille, Palais de Beaux-Arts de Lille, Berthe Morisot 1841-1895, Mar. 10-June 9, 2002, cat .49 (ill.); Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, June 20-Nov. 19, 2002.\n\nCopenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Woman in Impressionism: From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman, Oct. 6, 2006-Jan. 21, 2007, cat. 71 (ill.).\n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013Nov. 2, 2008, cat. 19 (ill.).\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e Luxembourg, Inventing Impressionism: Paul Durand-Ruel and the Modern Market, Oct. 9, 2014-Feb. 8, 2015, cat. 60; London, National Gallery, Mar. 4-May 31, 2015; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Inventing Impressionism, June 18-Sep. 13, 2015.\n\nWilliamstown, MA, Clark Art Institute, Women Artists in Paris, June 8 - Sep. 3, 2018\n\nPhiladelphia, Barnes Foundation, Berthe Morisot, Woman Impressionist, Oct. 20, 2018 - Jan. 14, 2019, cat. 30; Dallas Museum of Art, Feb. 24 - May 26, 2019; Paris, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, June 17 -  Sep. 22, 2019, cat. 30.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Berthe Morisot, June 18-Sep. 22, 2019, cat. 37.\n\nLondon, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism, Apr. 5 - Sep. 10, 2023, cat. 7; Paris, Mus\u00e9e Marmottan Monet, Oct. 18, 2023 - Mar. 10, 2024.\n\nFine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Manet & Morisot, Oct. 11, 2025-Feb. 15, 2026, no cat. no., pl. 45; Cleveland Museum of Art, Mar. 29\u2013July 5, 2026 (San Francisco only)","provenance_text":"William Merritt Chase, New York; his sale, New York, American Art Galleries, 1896, lot 1093 [according to Clairet 1997].  Mary Cassatt, 1896 [see Paris 1896].  Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1905 [see London 1905].  Wildenstein & Co., New York [according to Chicago 1933]. 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