CHECKLIST

The Art of Painting

Anna Ancher
Danish, 1859–1935
Michael Ancher
Danish, 1849–1927
Judgment of a Day’s Work
1883
Oil on canvas
33 11/16 x 40 9/16 in.
The Art Museum of Skagen, on deposit 1991 from the National Gallery of Denmark

Marie Bashkirtseff
Ukrainian, 1858–1884
In the Studio
1881
Oil on canvas
60 5/8 x 73 1/4 in.
Dnipropetrovsk State Art Museum, Ukraine

Louise Breslau
Swiss, 1856–1927
The Friends
1881
Oil on canvas
33 1/2 x 63 in.
Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva

Mina Carlson-Bredberg
Swedish, 1857–1943
Self-Portrait
1889
Oil on canvas
36 x 29 3/4 in.
Prins Eugens Waldemarsudde, Stockholm

Mina Carlson-Bredberg
Swedish, 1857–1943
Académie Julian, Mademoiselle Beson Drinking from a Glass
c. 1884
Oil on canvas
20 7/8 x 29 1/8 in.
Dorsia Hotel, Gothenburg, Sweden

Anna Elizabeth Klumpke
American, 1856–1942
Rosa Bonheur
1898
Oil on canvas
46 1/8 x 38 5/8 in.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Gift of the artist, in memory of Rosa Bonheur

Elizabeth Nourse
American, 1859–1938
Self-Portrait
1892
Oil on canvas
39 x 29 1/2 in.
Private collection

Hannah (Hirsch) Pauli
Swedish, 1864–1940
The Artist Venny Soldan-Brofeldt
1886-87
Oil on canvas
49 7/16 x 52 3/4 in.
Gothenberg Museum of Art, Sweden

Edma Morisot Pontillon
French, 1839–1921
Portrait of Berthe Morisot
c. 1865
Oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 27 15/16 in.
Private collection, Paris

Louise Abbéma
French, 1858–1927
Lunch in the Greenhouse
1877
Oil on canvas
76 3/8 x 121 1/4 in.
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Pau, France

The Lives of Women

Anna Ancher
Danish, 1859–1935
Young Woman Arranging Flowers
c. 1885
Oil on canvas
21 7/16 x 15 15/16 in.
ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

Anna Ancher
Danish, 1859–1935
An Old Woman in Her Room, Mrs. Brat
1888
Oil on canvas
11 13/16 x 9 15/16 in.
The Hirschsprung Collection, Copenhagen

Harriet Backer
Norwegian, 1845–1932
Evening, Interior
1890
Oil on canvas
32 x 34 in.
National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo

Amélie Beaury-Saurel
French, 1848–1924
Into the Blue (Dans le bleu)
1894
Pastel on canvas
29 x 32 5/16 in.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse

Marie Bracquemond
French, 1840–1916
The Afternoon Tea
1880
Oil on canvas
32 1/2 x 24 1/4 in.
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Louise Breslau
Swiss, 1856–1927
Tea at Five O'Clock
1883
Oil on canvas
59 1/4 x 59 5/8 in.
Gottfried Keller Foundation, Federal Office of Culture, Bern, deposited at the Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926
Portrait of an Elderly Lady in a Bonnet: Red Background
c. 1887
Oil on canvas
31 5/8 x 23 3/4 in.
Birmingham Museum of Art
Gift of Mahdah R. Kniffen Estate

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926
The Reader
1877
Oil on canvas
32 x 25 1/2 in.
Promised Gift to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR

Fashioning an Image 

Cecilia Beaux
American, 1855–1942
Sita and Sarita (Woman with a Cat)
1893–94
Oil on canvas
44 5/8 x 33 in.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Gift of the artist, 1921

Marie Bracquemond
French, 1840–1916
Three Women with Parasols (The Three Graces)
c. 1880
Oil on canvas
54 3/4 x 35 1/16 in.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris
Bequest of Gustave Geffroy, 1926

Marie Bracquemond
French, 1840–1916
On the Terrace at Sèvres
1880
Oil on canvas
34 5/8 x 45 1/4 in.
Musée du Petit Palais, Geneva

Marie Bracquemond
French, 1840–1916
The Woman in White
1880
Oil on canvas
71 1/16 x 41 5/16 in.
Musée d'Orsay, Paris, on deposit at Musée de Cambrai

Eva Gonzalès
French, 1849–1883
The Pink Slippers
1879-80
Oil on canvas, laid down on panel
10 1/4 x 13 3/4 in.
Private collection, courtesy of Galerie Hopkins, Paris

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
The Bath
1885-86
Oil on canvas
36 1/4 x 28 7/8 in.
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
1955.926

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
Woman at Her Toilette
1875-80
Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 31 5/8 in.
Art Institute of Chicago, Stickney Fund

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
The Sisters
1869
Oil on canvas
20 1/2 x 32 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs

Picturing Childhood 

Harriet Backer
Norwegian, 1845–1932
Big Brother Playing
1890
Oil on canvas
19 7/8 x 21 3/16 in.
Gothenberg Museum of Art, Sweden

Cecilia Beaux
American, 1855–1942
Ernesta (Child with Nurse)
1894
Oil on canvas
50 1/2 x 38 1/8 in.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Maria DeWitt Jesup Fund

Cecilia Beaux
American, 1855–1942
The Last Days of Childhood
1883-85
Oil on canvas
45 3/4 x 54 in.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Gift of Cecilia Drinker Saltonstall

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926
Children Playing on the Beach
1884
Oil on canvas
38 3/8 x 29 3/16 in.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926
Child Picking a Fruit
1893
Oil on canvas
39 1/2 x 25 3/4 in.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Gift of Ivor and Anne Massey

Paula Modersohn-Becker
German, 1876–1907
Three Bathing Boys by the Canal
1901
Oil on cardboard, mounted on wood
21 3/8 x 15 1/2 in.
Courtesy of Galerie St. Etienne, New York

Paula Modersohn-Becker
German, 1876–1907
Nursing Mother in Front of Birch Forest
1905
Oil on cardboard, cradled
28 1/4 x 20 in.
Private collection, Bedford, NY

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
The Artist's Daughter, Julie, with her Nanny
c. 1884
Oil on canvas, 22 1/2 x 28 in.
Minneapolis Institute of Art, The John R. Van Derlip Fund

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
On the Lake
c. 1884
Oil on canvas
25 1/2 x 30 1/2 in.
Private collection, Denver, CO

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
Lucie Léon at the Piano
1892
Oil on canvas
25 5/8 x 31 1/2 in.
Collection of Drs. Tobia and Morton Mower, Denver, CO

Elizabeth Nourse
American, 1859–1938
A Mother
1888
Oil on canvas
45 1/2 x 32 in.
Cincinnati Art Museum
Gift of the Procter & Gamble Company

A Modern Landscape

Harriet Backer
Norwegian, 1845–1932
Autumn at Strålsjøen
1894
Oil on canvas
30 1/8 x 44 1/8 in.
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926
Autumn, Portrait of Lydia Cassatt
1880
Oil on canvas
36 5/8 x 25 5/8 in.
Petit Palais, Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris

Marie Cazin
French, 1844–1924
Evening
c. 1884–88
Oil on canvas
12 7/8 x 18 1/8 in.
Tate: Bequeathed by Mrs. Mary James Mathews in memory of her husband Frank Claughton Mathews, 1944

Fanny Churberg
Finnish, 1845–1892
Waterfall
1877
Oil on canvas on plywood
11 13/16 x 18 7/8 in.
Gift from Arvid Sourander, Finnish National Gallery, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Eva Gonzalès
French, 1849–1883
The Beach of Dieppe (View from the Château)
1871–72
Oil on canvas
11 1/4 x 27 1/2 in.
Château-Musée de Dieppe, France

Kitty Kielland
Norwegian, 1843–1914
Evening Landscape at Stokkavannet
1890
Oil on canvas
45 5/16 x 78 3/4 in.
The Royal Collections, Oslo

Emma Löwstädt–Chadwick
Swedish, 1855–1932
Beach Parasol, Brittany (Portrait of Amanda Sidwall)
1880
Oil on panel
11 7/16 x 19 11/16 in.
Private collection, Stockholm

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
The Lesson in the Garden
1886
Oil on canvas
23 9/16 x 28 3/4 in.
Collection of Frederic C. Hamilton, bequeathed to the Denver Art Museum

Hannah (Hirsch) Pauli
Swedish, 1864–1940
The Farm
1887
Oil on canvas
12 13/16 x 21 5/8 in.
Gothenberg Museum of Art, Sweden

Helene Schjerfbeck
Finnish, 1862–1946
The Door
1884
Oil on canvas
16 x 13 in.
Finnish National Gallery, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

History Painting and Everyday Heroism

Anna Ancher
Danish, 1859–1935
The Harvesters
1905
Oil on canvas
17 1/8 x 22 1/8 in.
Art Museums of Skagen, Denmark

Marie Bashkirtseff
Ukrainian, 1858–1884
The Meeting
1883–84
Oil on canvas
76 x 69 11/16 in.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Rosa Bonheur
French, 1822–1899
Plowing in Nivernais
1850
Oil on canvas
52 1/2 x 102 in.
Collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art
State Art Museum of Florida, Florida State University, Sarasota, FL
Bequest of John Ringling

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
American, 1837–1922
The Shepherd David
c. 1895
Oil on canvas
60 1/2 x 41 3/8 in.
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Gift of Wallace and Wilhelmina Holladay

Lady Elizabeth Butler
British, 1846–1933
Balaclava
1876
Oil on canvas
40 5/8 x 73 5/8 in.
Manchester Art Gallery
Gift from Robert Whitehead, 1898

Lady Elizabeth Butler
British, 1846–1933
Listed for the Connaught Rangers: Recruiting in Ireland
1878
Oil on canvas
42 x 66 5/8 in.
Bury Art Museum and Sculpture Centre
Gift from Robert Whitehead

Mary Cassatt
American, 1844–1926
Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter
1873
Oil on canvas
39 5/8 x 33 1/2 in.
Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA
1955.1

Julie Delance-Feurgard
French, 1859–1892
The Marriage
1884
Oil on canvas
38 3/8 x 51 3/8 in.
Musée des Beaux Arts, Brest, France

Eva Gonzalès
French, 1849–1883
Solider Boy
1870
Oil on canvas
52 3/8 x 42 15/16 in.
Musée de Gajac, Villeneuve-sur-Lot, France

Anna Klumpke
American, 1856–1942
In the Wash-House
1888
Oil on canvas, mounted on wood
79 x 67 in.
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Gift of the artist

Asta Nørregaard
Norwegian, 1853–1933
Peasant Woman from Normandy
1889
Oil on canvas
41 x 33 1/2 in.
National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo

Marie Petiet
French, 1854–1893
Young Women in Church
n.d.
Oil on canvas
50 x 37 3/8 in.
Musée de Peinture Petiet, Limoux, France

Helene Schjerfbeck
Finnish, 1862–1946
Churchgoers (Easter Morning)
1895-1900
Oil on canvas
27 9/16 x 37 3/8 in.
Finnish National Gallery, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Annie Stebler-Hopf
Swiss, 1861–1918
Autopsy (Professor Poirier, Paris)
1889
Oil on canvas
44 7/8 x 57 7/8 in.
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

Jeunes Filles 

Elizabeth Jane Gardner Bouguereau
American, 1837–1922
La Confidence
c. 1880
Oil on canvas mounted on aluminum
68 x 47 1/8 in.
Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia
Original gift of Mr. George Seney to the Lucy Cobb Institute, Athens, GA

Elin Danielson-Gambogi
Finnish, 1861–1919
Girl with Kittens in a Summer Landscape
1892
Oil on canvas
43 5/16 x 53 15/16 in.
UPM-Kymmene Cultural Foundation, Helsinki

Paula Modersohn-Becker
German, 1876–1907
Recto: Girl with a Baby Among the Birch Trees
1905
Oil on cardboard
Verso: Self-Portrait: A Study in Black, Gray, and White
c. 1898-1900
Mixed media on cardboard
27 1/2 x 22 in.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Gift of Margaret S. Travers in memory of Arnold F. Strauss, M.D., and Marjory Spindle Strauss

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
Young Girl in a Park
1888-93
Oil on canvas
35 7/16 x 31 7/8 in.
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse

Berthe Morisot
French, 1841–1895
The Cherry Tree
1891
Oil on canvas
57 11/16 x 35 1/16 in.
Collection of Bruce and Robbi Toll

Lilla Cabot Perry
American, 1848–1933
Open Air Concert
1890
Oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 30 1/8 in.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Gift of Miss Margaret Perry

Lilla Cabot Perry
American, 1848–1933
The Trio, Tokyo, Japan
1898-1901
Oil on canvas
29 3/4 x 39 3/8 in.
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA, Friends of the Fogg Art Museum Fund

Marianne Stokes
British, 1855–1927
Death and the Maiden
1908
Oil on canvas
37 3/8 x 53 1/8 in.
Musée d’Orsay, Paris

Helene Schjerfbeck
Finnish, 1862–1946
The Schoolgirl II (Girl in Black)
1908
Oil on canvas
27 15/16 x 15 15/16 in.
Herman and Elisabeth Hallonblad Collection, Finnish National Gallery, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki

Ellen Thesleff
Finnish, 1869–1954
Thyra Elizabeth
1892
Oil on canvas
16 5/16 x 13 9/16 in.
HAM Helsinki Art Museum, The Katarina and Leonard Bäcksbacka Collection

Ellen Thesleff
Finnish, 1869–1954
Echo
1891
Oil on canvas
24 x 17 1/8 in.
Anders Wiklöf Collection, Andersudde, Åland Islands

A fully illustrated catalogue, Women Artists in Paris, 1850–1900, has been published by the American Federation of Arts and Yale University Press. Along with an art-historical overview by curator Laurence Madeline, the catalogue includes essays by Jane R. Becker, collections management associate, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Richard Kendall, former curator at large, Clark Art Institute; Bridget Alsdorf, associate professor, History of Art, Princeton University; and Vibeke Hansen, curator, Nasjonalmuseet, Oslo.