Henri Matisse
Violinist and Young Girl (“Divertissement”)
1920
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Henri Matisse
Violinist and Young Girl (“Divertissement”)
1920
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 20 x 25 3/4 in. (50.8 x 65.4 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.243
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, 1929; Claribel Cone by purchase, 1923; from Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris; Georges Bernheim, by purchase, 1922; Galerie Bernheim-Jeune; from Henri Matisse, 1922
Henri Matisse: La Musicalité d'une oeuvre
Matisse's Marguerite: Model Daughter
Cone Wing Rotations 2022
Matisse and Marguerite (Working Title)
"Cone Collection of Modern Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1930, p.5, no. 21. (Published as "The Musicians")
S.D. Emmart, "Art-The Cone Collection and The Independents' Exhibition," "The Baltimore Sun," March 30, 1930, Section 3, p. 12, ill. p. 12. (Published as "Two Girls")
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, p. 24, pl. 45, ill. (Published as "Divertissement")
George Boas, Adelyn D. Breeskin, and J.G. D'Arcy Paul, "Selections from the Cone Collection," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," October 1949, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 5, 16, no. 45, ill. p. 5. (Published as "Divertissement")
"$3,000,000 Art Collection," "Look Magazine," April 25, 1950, vol. 14, no. 9, p. 104, ill.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "Behold the Child," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1950, p. 17. (Published as "Divertissement")
Alfred H. Barr, Jr., "Matisse: His Art and His Public," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1951, p. 557. (Published as "Divertissement")
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Cone Collection: A Handbook with a Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1955, p. 34, no. 58, ill. (Published as "Divertissement")
Grace L. McCann Morley and Herschel B. Chipp, "Art from Ingres to Pollock: Painting and Sculpture since Neoclassicism," Berkeley: University of California,1960, pp. 26, 28, 54. (Published as "Divertissement")
Barbara Pollack, "The Collectors: Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone," Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, 1962, p. 172, ill.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, p. 67, no. 55. (Published as "Divertissement")
Felix Baumann, "Henri Matisse," Zürich and Düsseldorf: Kunsthaus Zürich and Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, 1982, p. 45, ill.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 26, 173, p. 26, ill.
Jacqueline and Maurice Guillaud, "Matisse: Le Rythme et la Ligne," Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, p. 307, ill.
Jack Flam, ed., "Matisse: A Retrospective," New York: Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc., 1988, pp. 197, 392, p. 197, ill.
Guy-Patrice and Michel Dauberville, "Henri Matisse Chez Bernheim-Jeune, vols. 1-2" Paris: Éditions Bernheim-Jeune, 1995, pp. 1001-1002, 1439, no. 469, ill. (Published as "La violoniste et la jeune fille")
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, pp. 65, 147, 158, no. 17, ill.
John O'Brian, "Ruthless Hedonism: The American Reception of Matisse," Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1999, p. 82, fig. 32, ill.
Sona K. Johnston and William R. Johnston, "The Triumph of French Painting: Masterpieces from Ingres to Matisse," London: Scala Publishers, 2000, p. 36, ill.
Mary Gabriel, "The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone," Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2002, pp. 140, 251, n.p., ill.
Eric M. Zafran, "Impressionism to Surrealism from The Baltimore Museum of Art," Hartford: Wadsworth Atheneum, 2002, p. 18, no. 25.
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage, "The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt," Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008, pp. 220, 277, fig. 7, ill.
Karen Levitov, "Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore," New York: The Jewish Museum, 2011, ill. fig. 12.
Monod-Fontaine, Isabelle. Matisse et Marguerite: le regard d'un père. Paris: Paris-Musées, 2025, page 155, cat. no. 87.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower right in paint, "Henri-Matisse"
