{"data":{"id":153798,"api_model":"artworks","api_link":"https:\/\/api.artic.edu\/api\/v1\/artworks\/153798","is_boosted":false,"title":"Woman in a Garden","alt_titles":null,"thumbnail":{"lqip":"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBAAFAPQAAEJQUlZhSFdlV1ljVVVgXVxrXmJqWmNtWm1yV2txWWtyWU1ZYlZhaHN6Ynt\/aH+Dc3yGfYOJd5mUdX2HgwAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAAAAAAALAAAAAAEAAUAAAURoDEcjeAoSRE9EsQQyLQAQQgAOw==","width":6571,"height":8791,"alt_text":"A work made of oil on canvas."},"main_reference_number":"1999.363","has_not_been_viewed_much":false,"boost_rank":null,"date_start":1882,"date_end":1883,"date_display":"1882\u201383","date_qualifier_title":"","date_qualifier_id":null,"artist_display":"Berthe Morisot (French, 1841\u20131895)","place_of_origin":"France","description":"<p>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, Eug\u00e8ne Manet (artist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artic.edu\/artists\/35577\/edouard-manet\">\u00c9douard Manet's<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","short_description":"Morisot painted figures like she was making an Impressionist landscape, using the same strokes to paint the people at the center of this piece as she used when slashing acid green and blued oranges across her canvas to capture the dappled sunlight in this garden.","dimensions":"123 \u00d7 94 cm (48 1\/2 \u00d7 37 in.); Framed: 153.7 \u00d7 123.9 \u00d7 12.1 cm (60 1\/2 \u00d7 48 3\/4 \u00d7 4 3\/4 in.)","dimensions_detail":[{"depth":null,"width":94,"height":123,"diameter":null,"clarification":null},{"depth":12,"width":123,"height":153,"diameter":null,"clarification":"Framed"}],"medium_display":"Oil on canvas","inscriptions":null,"credit_line":"A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation","catalogue_display":null,"publication_history":"Possibly Review in Artist (May 1, 1883) cited in Kate Flint, Impressionists in England (London, 1984), p. 61.\n\nKunst und K\u00fcnstler 9 (1911), p. 206, as Im Garten.\n\nM. Dormoy, \u201cLa Collection Ernest Rouart, Formes 24 (April 1932), afb. pp. 256-257.\n\nMonique Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1933), pp. 70-71, cat. 155 as Le Jardin rue de Villejust, 1883.\n\nLouis Rouart, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1941), p. 31.\n\nM.L. Bataille and G. Wildenstein, Catalogue Raisonn\u00e9 of the Oil Paintings, Pastels, and Watercolours of Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1961), pp. 17, 32, cat. 142 as Le Jardin, 1883,  pl. 54.\n\nConsolidated Foods Corporation\u2019s Nathan Cummings Collection (Chicago, 1983), p. 12, fig. 7 (ill.)\n\nKate Flint, Impressionists in England: The Critical Reception (London, 1984), p. 61.\n\nAnne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot (New York, 1990).\n\nCollector\u2019s Agenda (Netherlands, 1994) as Young Woman in a Garden, 1883.\n\nAlain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, and Yves Rouart, Berthe Morisot (Paris, 1997), p. 184, no. 143.\n\nGloria Groom, \u201cYoung Woman in a Garden,\u201d Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies 30, 1 (2004), pp. 68-69 (color ills.).\n\nThe Age of Impressionism at the Art Institute of Chicago (New Haven and London, 2008), cat. 20, p. 60 (ill.).\n\nMarianne Mathieu, Berthe Morisot: 1841-1895, exh. cat. (Yale UP, 2012), p, 140, cat. 44. \n\nDorthe Vangsgaard Nielsen, ed., Impressionism and Its Overlooked Women, exh. cat. (Charlottenlund: Ordrupgaard, 2024), 150 (detail ill.), 151 cat. 31.\n\nGloria Groom, \"A Stack for Every Season\" in Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago, James Rondeau, ed. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2026), 124\u201325, fig. 4.","exhibition_history":"Possibly London, Dowdeswell Galleries, Impressionist exhibition organized by Durand-Ruel: Paintings, Drawings, and Pastels by Members of the \u201cSoci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Impressionistes, April 1883, cat. 1.\n\nParis, Durand-Ruel Galleries, Berthe Morisot (Madame Eug\u00e8ne Manet): Exposition de son oeuvre, March 5-21, 1896, cat. 1, as Le Jardin, 1883. \n\nParis, Galerie Durand-Ruel, 1902 [acc. to Washington 1987 and Clairet 1997]\n\nParis, Salon d\u2019Automne, 1907, cat. 1 ILL, 7.11.07\n\nParis, Manzi, Joyant and Cie., 1912, no. 41 [acc. to Washington 1987 and Clairet 1997]\n\nParis, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Cent oeuvres de Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), November 7-11, 1919, cat. 21.\n\nParis, Marcel Bernheim Gallery, R\u00e9union d\u2019oeuvres de Berthe Morisot, June-July 1922, cat. 1.\n\nParis, L. Dru Gallery, Exposition de Pastels, Aquarelles, Dessins, Crayons de Berthe Morisot, May 21-June 25, 1926, cat. 57, as Jardin, 1883.\n\nParis, Bernheim-Jeune Gallery, Exposition d\u2019oeuvres de Berthe Morisot, May 6-24, 1929, cat. 1, as Le Jardin, pr\u00eat\u00e9 par M. et Mme Rouart.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e de l\u2019Orangerie, Exposition: Berthe Morisot, 1941, cat. 43, as Le Jardin, 1883. \n\nCopenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, August-September 1949, cat. 24, as Le Jardin, 1883. \n\nLondon, The Arts Council, Berthe Morisot: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings, 1950, cat. 27, as In the Garden, 1883. \n\nToronto, Art Gallery of Toronto, Berthe Morisot and Her Circle: Paintings from the Rouart Collection, 1952-1954, cat. 5, as The Garden, 1883; traveled to New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art; Washington, D.C., The Phillips Collection; San Fransisco, California Palace of The Legion of Honor; Portland, Portland Museum of Art.\n\nParis, Mus\u00e9e des Arts D\u00e9coratifs, La Collection Nathan Cummings, March-May 1965, as Jeune Fille dans un Jardin. [acc. to label on reverse of painting]\n\nWashington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Selections from the Nathan Cummings Collection, June 28-September 11, 1970, cat. 15, as In the Garden, 1883, also shown in New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 1-September 7, 1971. \n\nWashington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, Berthe Morisot: Impressionist, September 6-November 29, 1987, no cat. no. as The Garden; traveled to Fort-Worth, Kimbell Art Museum, December 12, 1987-February 21, 1988; South Hadley, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, March 14-May 9, 1988. \n\nSingapore, Singapore Museum of Art, Monet to Moore, April 1-May 30, 1999, traveled to Canberra, National Gallery of Australia, June 11-August 22, 1999; Raleigh, North Carolina Museum of Art, September 10-November 7, 1999; Oregon, Portland Art Museum, November 19-January 23, 2000; The Art Institute of Chicago, march 13-May 28, 2000, cat. 35, as The Garden (LeJardin), 1882-83.\n\nFort Worth, Tex., Kimbell Museum of Art, The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago, June 29\u2013November 2, 2008, cat. 20 (ill.).\n\nParis, France, Marmottan-Monet Museum, Berthe Morisot: 1841-1895, March 7- July 1, 2012. cat. 44.\n\nCharlottenlund, Denmark, Ordrupgaard, Impressionism and Its Overlooked Women, Feb. 10\u2013May 20, 2024, cat. 31; Dublin, National Gallery of Ireland, Woman Impressionists, June 27\u2013Oct. 6, 2024 [Charlottenlund only].","provenance_text":"With the artist until her death in 1895; by descent to the artist\u2019s 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. 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