The Front of a Yacht (L'avant d'un yacht)

1875

Medium	watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions	8 1/8 x 10 9/16 in. (20.7 x 26.8 cm)
Object Number	1955.1964
Acquisition	Acquired by Sterling and Francine Clark before 1955
Status	Off View

Image Caption

Berthe Morisot, The Front of a Yacht (L'avant d'un yacht), 1875, watercolor over graphite on cream wove paper. Clark Art Institute, 1955.1964

Select Bibliography

Patry, Sylvie, Hugues Wilhelm, and Sylvie Patin. Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Mar. 8-Jun. 9, 2002; Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Jun. 20-Nov. 19, 2002. Édition de la Réunion des musées nationaux and Fondation Pierre Gianadda. 2002. Paris: Galerie Durand-Ruel.. Second Exhibition of Impressionist Painting.. April 1876.. Paris: Galerie Bernheime-Jeune.. Exposition d'oeuvres de Berthe Morisot.. May 6-24, 1929.. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Exhibit Thirty: A Selection of Nineteenth Century French Drawings. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1965. Wildenstein & Company. An Exhibition of Treasures from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts: Paintings, drawings & rare silver, for the benefit of the Committee to Rescue Italian Art, inc. (CRIA). Exhibition catalogue. New York: Wildenstein & Company, 1967. Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. A Selection of Drawings from the Collection of the Clark Art Institute. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: The Clark, 1974. Mount Holyoke College Art Museum.. Berthe Morisot, Impressionist. March 14-May 22, 1988; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Sept. 6-Nov. 19, 1987; Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Dec. 14, 1987-Feb. 22, 1988. Cat. by Charles F. Stuckey and William P. Scott. Brooke, David S. Master Drawings: Robert Sterling Clark as a Collector. Exhibition catalogue. Williamstown, MA: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1995. Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York: Abbeville Press, 1991. Ruth Berson.. The New Painting, Impressionism 1874-1886. Documentation, 2 vols.. Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.. 1996.. M[arie].-L[ouise]. Bataille & G[eorges]. Wildenstein. Berthe Morisot: catalogue des peintures, pastels, et aquarelles. Paris: Beaux-Arts. 1961. Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert, Standish D. Lawder, and Charles W. Talbot, Jr. Drawings from the Clark Art Institute: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Robert Sterling Clark Collection of European and American Drawings, Sixteenth Through Nineteenth Centuries, at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown. 2 volumes. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964.

Provenance

[Carroll Carstairs, New York, sold to Clark, 16 Jan. 1939, as Avant d’un Yacht]; Robert Sterling Clark (1939–1955); Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, 1955.