Provenance
Captain Edward H. Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris, by 1952; acquired 1955 by Ailsa Mellon Bruce [1901-1969]; bequest 1970 to NGA.
Exhibition History
- 1929
- Exposition d'oeuvres de Berthe Morisot, MM. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, 1929. no. 131.
- 1949
- Berthe Morisot 1841-1895, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, 1949, no. 53.
- 1950
- Berthe Morisot, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1950, no. 55.
- 1952
- French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1952, unnumbered checklist, as Portrait of Madame de Pontillon and Her Daughter.
- 1961
- French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961, no. 32.
- 1966
- French Paintings from the Collections of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon and Mrs. Mellon Bruce, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1966, no. 236, repro.
- 1985
- Graphics Survey Exhibition, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., 1985-1986.
Bibliography
- 1961
- Bataille, M.L., and Georges Wildenstein. Berthe Morisot, catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles. Paris, 1961: 621.
- 1961
- French Paintings of the Nineteenth Century from the Collection of Mrs. Mellon Bruce. Exh. cat. California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 1961: 32 (both as "Mme. Pontillon and her Daughter Jeanne").
- 1982
- Rey, Jean Dominique. Berthe Morisot. New York, 1982: 18.
- 1991
- Wadley, Nicholas. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawing. London, 1991: no. 49b.
- 1998
- Gersch-Nešic, Beth. “Pregnancy." In Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography: Themes Depicted in Works of Art. Edited by Helene E. Roberts. 2 vols. Chicago, 1998: 2:754.
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