Henri Matisse
The Plumed Hat
c. 1919
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Henri Matisse
The Plumed Hat
c. 1919
Physical Qualities
Graphite with erasing on paper, Sheet: 491 × 370 mm. (19 5/16 × 14 9/16 in.)
Mat: 28 × 22 in. (71.1 × 55.9 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.58
Cone acquired several drawings in different media detailing models, both identified and unknown, in bust-length portraits. The Plumed Hat is a particularly important study for a painting of the young model Antoinette Arnaud wearing a hat with ribbons embellished by Matisse himself. Both the artist’s wife and mother had been milliners, and Cone appears to have appreciated the degree to which women’s fashion was central to his aesthetic.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore; purchased from Pierre Matisse, 1933
Pierre Matisse Gallery, NY, "Henri Matisse: Exhibition of Fifty Drawings," 22 November - 17 December 1932, no. 30.
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Modern Drawings," 1944, cat. p. 94, ill. p. 50.
"Matisse Retrospective Exhibition," Museum of Modern Art, NY (13 November 1951 - 13 January 52); Cleveland Museum of Art (5 February - 16 March 1952); Chicago Art Institute (1 April - 4 May 1952); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (22 May - 6 July 1952); Los Angeles, Municipal Art Galleries; Portland Art Museum (tour ended 10 October 1952), cat. 19.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, "The Cone Collection," 1953.
M. Knoedler & Co., NY, "The Cone Collection," 1955.
"Twentieth Century Master Drawings," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY (6 November 1963 - 5 January 1964); University of Minnesota Art Gallery (3 February - 15 March 1964); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, (6 April - 24 May 1964), cat. 81.
Victor Carlson, BMA, "Matisse as Draughtsman," 12 January - 21 February 1971, traveled to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 20 March - 9 May 1971, The Art Institute of Chicago, 26 May - 10 July 1971, cat. no. 34.
Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 4 May 1974.
Centre d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, "Henri Matisse, Dessins et Sculpture," 29 May - 7 September 1975, cat 61.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Matisse in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," August 24- October 14, 1979.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
"Matisse Drawings," Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery (October 3, 1984- January 6, 1985); The Museum of Modern Art, NY (February 27- May 14, 1985), illustrated in MoMA brochure.
BMA, "The Spirited Line," September 7- November 2, 1986.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Masterpieces from the Cone Collection from the Baltimore Museum," October 1991- January 1992.
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Matisse: A Retrospective," September 16, 1992- January 19, 1993, cat. # 238, ill. p. 314.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, "Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 10, 2000- January 28, 2001.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, "Matisse in Transition: Portraits of Lorette," January 28 - April 16, 2006.
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, "Matisse Drawings Life," November 26, 2011 - March 6, 2012, cat. no. 46. p. 130.
John Bidwell, "Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Books Arts," Morgan Library and Museum, 30 October 2015 - 18 January 2016.
Katy Rothkopf and Leslie Cozzi, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Modern Influence: Henry Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore," October 3, 2021 - January 2, 2022.
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Modern Drawings," 1944, cat. p. 94, ill. p. 50.
"Matisse Retrospective Exhibition," Museum of Modern Art, NY (13 November 1951 - 13 January 52); Cleveland Museum of Art (5 February - 16 March 1952); Chicago Art Institute (1 April - 4 May 1952); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (22 May - 6 July 1952); Los Angeles, Municipal Art Galleries; Portland Art Museum (tour ended 10 October 1952), cat. 19.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, "The Cone Collection," 1953.
M. Knoedler & Co., NY, "The Cone Collection," 1955.
"Twentieth Century Master Drawings," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY (6 November 1963 - 5 January 1964); University of Minnesota Art Gallery (3 February - 15 March 1964); Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, (6 April - 24 May 1964), cat. 81.
Victor Carlson, BMA, "Matisse as Draughtsman," 12 January - 21 February 1971, traveled to California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, 20 March - 9 May 1971, The Art Institute of Chicago, 26 May - 10 July 1971, cat. no. 34.
Wildenstein Gallery, NY, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein, New York," 29 March - 4 May 1974.
Centre d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, "Henri Matisse, Dessins et Sculpture," 29 May - 7 September 1975, cat 61.
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Matisse in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," August 24- October 14, 1979.
Victor Carlson and Carol Hynning Smith, BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries"; circulated by the American Federation of Arts to the Guggenheim Museum, NY, 24 August - 7 October 1979; Des Moines Art Center, 19 November 1979 - 6 January 1980; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, 8 February - 16 March, 1980; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 1 May - 22 June 1980 ; Denver Art Museum, 12 July - 24 August, 1980.
BMA, "Master Drawings and Watercolors of the 19th and 20th Centuries from the Museum Collection," 14 October - 28 November, 1982.
"Matisse Drawings," Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery (October 3, 1984- January 6, 1985); The Museum of Modern Art, NY (February 27- May 14, 1985), illustrated in MoMA brochure.
BMA, "The Spirited Line," September 7- November 2, 1986.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Masterpieces from the Cone Collection from the Baltimore Museum," October 1991- January 1992.
The Museum of Modern Art, NY, "Matisse: A Retrospective," September 16, 1992- January 19, 1993, cat. # 238, ill. p. 314.
Jay Fisher, BMA, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The
Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August, 1995.
Jay Fisher, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from The Cone Collection," The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November, 1996 - 19 January, 1997; Seattle Art Museum 20 February - 20 April, 1997; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 18 May - 13 July, 1997.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, "Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 10, 2000- January 28, 2001.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, "Matisse in Transition: Portraits of Lorette," January 28 - April 16, 2006.
Queensland Art Gallery, Australia, "Matisse Drawings Life," November 26, 2011 - March 6, 2012, cat. no. 46. p. 130.
John Bidwell, "Graphic Passion: Matisse and the Books Arts," Morgan Library and Museum, 30 October 2015 - 18 January 2016.
Katy Rothkopf and Leslie Cozzi, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "A Modern Influence: Henry Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore," October 3, 2021 - January 2, 2022.
Barr, Alfred. Matisse, His Art and His Public, p. 206, illus. p. 429.
Elderfield, John, "The Drawings of Henri Matisse," Arts Council of Great Britain in association with The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Thames and Hudson.
Matisse, Henri. Cinquante Dessins par Henri Matisse, Paris, 1920, pl. 30.
Boas, G. The Cone Collection, 1934, pl. 83.
Committee for the Exhibition of French Drawings from American Collections. De Clouet a Matisse: Dessins Français des Collections Americaines [exposition] 1958-1959. Paris, [1958], plate 199, cat. 205, unpaged.
"Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore Museum of Art, rev. ed. 1967, cat. no. 192, not illustrated.
Chaet, Bernard. "The Art of Drawing," Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970, ref. and ill. p. 5.
Barrière, Gérard. "Matisse, Noir et Blanc," Connaissance des Arts (no. 282, Aug. 1975), pp. 58-67, ill. p. 61.
Musée National d'Art Moderne. Henri Matisse: Dessins et Sculpture: Musée National d'Art Moderne, 29 Mai - 7 Septembre 1975. [Paris]: Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, 1975, ill. page 106, plate 61.
Carlson, Victor, and Carol Hynning Smith. Master Drawings and Watercolors of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: The Baltimore Museum of Art. New York, NY: The American Federation of Arts, 1979, pp. 95, ill.
Mannering, Douglas. The Art of Matisse. London: Optimum Books, 1982, page 10.
Schneider, Pierre. Matisse. New York: Rizzoli, 1984, p. 63 (published as “Antoinette with The Plumed Hat and Jewish Dress”).
Richardson, Brenda. "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1985, p. 188.
Néret, Gilles. Matisse. [Place of publication not identified]: Konecky & Konecky, 1993, p. 111, no. 170 (published as “Antoinette with a Plumed Hat, Long Dress”).
Néret, Gilles. Henri Matisse. Köln; New York: Taschen, [1999], page 102.
Jack Flam, "Matisse in The Cone Collection The Poetics of Vision," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2001, pl. 17, p. 53, ill.
"Newsletter of the Print, Drawing & Photograph Society," vol XVIII, no. 2, Spring 2001, p. 9.
Klein, John. Matisse Portraits. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, p. 251, no. 203.
Sarda, Marie-Anne. Matisse et Mallarmé. Vulaines-sur-Seine: Musée départemental Stéphane Mallarmé, 2002, page 46, fig. 5 (published as “Le Chapeau à plumes”).
Impressionist and Modern Art sale, Christie's, 3 November 2004, fig. 2, p. 74 (entry for lot 21).
Spurling, Hilary. Matisse the Master: A Life of Henri Matisse; The Conquest of Colour, 1909-1954. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2005, page 226.
Flam, Jack. Matisse in Transition: Around Laurette. West Palm Beach, FL: Norton Museum of Art, 2006, page 55.
Chicha-Castex, Céline, and Emilie Ovaere-Corthay. Matisse: Drawing Life. South Brisbane, Queensland: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, 2011, p. 130.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.
Verdier, Aurélie and Dávid Fehér (editors). Henri Matisse: the colour of ideas : Masterpieces from the Centre Pompidou, Paris. Paris: Centre Pompidou, 2022. ill. p. 31.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Henri- Matisse"
Markings: Watermark: VIDALON LES ANNONAY
