Félix Vallotton
Gertrude Stein
1906
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, Unframed: 39 1/2 × 32 in. (100.3 × 81.3 cm.)
Framed: 42 3/4 × 36 × 3 in. (108.6 × 91.4 × 7.6 cm.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.300
In the 1890s, Claribel Cone met Gertrude Stein, a woman ten years her junior. Claribel was already an established professor at the Women’s Medical College of Baltimore when she, along with her younger sister Etta, became friendly with the Stein family, including Gertrude’s brother Leo. The sisters made several trips to Europe at the beginning of the 20th century; the Steins often served as their tour guides, teaching them about art and aesthetics. It was through the Steins that they were first introduced to Japanese prints and the art of Paul Cézanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse. Claribel purchased this portrait from Gertrude in 1926. Gertrude, who later became a famous writer and collector of modern art, often offered her paintings to the Cone sisters when she needed money. Several of the works in The Cone Collection were previously owned by either Gertrude or Leo Stein.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore, by bequest, 1929; Claribel Cone, Baltimore, by purchase, October 26, 1926; Gertrude Stein, Paris; the artist 1907
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, "Pictures for a Picture", February 11, 1951-March 11, 1951, no. 38; circulated to The Baltimore Museum of Art, March 21, 1951-April 21, 1951.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Cone Collection", circulated to The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, October 28, 1958-November 24, 1958.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection", circulated to The Greensboro Public Library, North Carolina, March 31, 1965-April 14, 1965.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, "Felix Vallotton", April 7, 1970-April 25, 1970, no. 3 (exhibited as "Portrait of Gertrude Stein").
Margaret Potter, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family", December 19, 1970-March, 1, 1971; circulated to the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 4, 1971-June 13, 1971; The San Francisco Museum of Art, September 9, 1971-October 31, 1971.
Maurice Bloch, Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Graphic Art of Félix Vallotton", October 24, 1972-November 19, 1972, no. 7.
Jane Harrison Cone, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated to Wildenstein and Company, New York, March 29, 1974-May 4, 1974, no. 53.
Brenda Richardson, "Matisse, Picasso and Impressionist Masters from the Cone Collection", circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, October 2, 1991-January 19, 1992.
Sasha M. Newman, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, "Félix Vallotton: A Retrospective", October 24, 1991-January 5, 1992; circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 31, 1992-March 29, 1992; The Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 25, 1992-June 21, 1992; The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, August 27, 1992-November 1, 1992; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, November 21, 1992-January 31, 1993.
Brenda Richardson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Van Gogh to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 21, 1993-January 30, 1994.
Katherine Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse Picasso and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art featuring Selections from the Collection of Etta and Claribel Cone", circulated to The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; The Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL as "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Impressionism to Surrealism, Masterworks of Painting and Sculpture from The Baltimore Museum of Art", February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, as "Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art", March 2, 2007-June 3, 2007.
Christoph Becker and Linda Schädler, Kunsthaus Zürich, "Félix Vallotton: Idylle am Abgrund", October 5, 2007-January 13, 2008, no. 29; circulated to Hubertus-Wald-Forum at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 15, 2008-May 18, 2008.
Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, "Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories", April 16, 2011-September 5, 2011 and circulated to The National Portrait Gallery October 7, 2011-January 22, 2012.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde", May 21, 2011-September 6, 2011, no. 441; circulated to Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris, October 3, 2011-January 16, 2012; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21, 2012-June 3, 2012.
Wrightwood 659, "The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1969 - 1939", May 2, 2025 - July 26, 2025.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Cone Collection", circulated to The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, October 28, 1958-November 24, 1958.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection", circulated to The Greensboro Public Library, North Carolina, March 31, 1965-April 14, 1965.
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, "Felix Vallotton", April 7, 1970-April 25, 1970, no. 3 (exhibited as "Portrait of Gertrude Stein").
Margaret Potter, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family", December 19, 1970-March, 1, 1971; circulated to the Baltimore Museum of Art, April 4, 1971-June 13, 1971; The San Francisco Museum of Art, September 9, 1971-October 31, 1971.
Maurice Bloch, Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, University of California, Los Angeles, "The Graphic Art of Félix Vallotton", October 24, 1972-November 19, 1972, no. 7.
Jane Harrison Cone, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection from The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated to Wildenstein and Company, New York, March 29, 1974-May 4, 1974, no. 53.
Brenda Richardson, "Matisse, Picasso and Impressionist Masters from the Cone Collection", circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, October 2, 1991-January 19, 1992.
Sasha M. Newman, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, "Félix Vallotton: A Retrospective", October 24, 1991-January 5, 1992; circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 31, 1992-March 29, 1992; The Indianapolis Museum of Art, April 25, 1992-June 21, 1992; The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, August 27, 1992-November 1, 1992; Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, November 21, 1992-January 31, 1993.
Brenda Richardson, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Van Gogh to Matisse: Impressionist and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art", circulated to The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 21, 1993-January 30, 1994.
Katherine Rothkopf, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse Picasso and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art featuring Selections from the Collection of Etta and Claribel Cone", circulated to The North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, October 10, 2004-January 16, 2005; The Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL as "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Impressionism to Surrealism, Masterworks of Painting and Sculpture from The Baltimore Museum of Art", February 5, 2005-May 1, 2005; The Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, as "Matisse, Picasso, and the School of Paris: Masterpieces from The Baltimore Museum of Art", March 2, 2007-June 3, 2007.
Christoph Becker and Linda Schädler, Kunsthaus Zürich, "Félix Vallotton: Idylle am Abgrund", October 5, 2007-January 13, 2008, no. 29; circulated to Hubertus-Wald-Forum at the Hamburger Kunsthalle, February 15, 2008-May 18, 2008.
Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco, "Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories", April 16, 2011-September 5, 2011 and circulated to The National Portrait Gallery October 7, 2011-January 22, 2012.
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde", May 21, 2011-September 6, 2011, no. 441; circulated to Réunion des Musées Nationaux-Grand Palais, Paris, October 3, 2011-January 16, 2012; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, February 21, 2012-June 3, 2012.
Wrightwood 659, "The First Homosexuals: The Birth of a New Identity, 1969 - 1939", May 2, 2025 - July 26, 2025.
Guillaume Apollinaire, "Le Salon d'Automne," "Je dis tout," October 12, 1907 (published as "Mlle. Stein").
Maurice Guillemot, "Au Salon d'Automne," "L'Art et les Artistes," 1907, vol. VI, p. 399, ill. (published as "Portrait de Mlle S").
André Pératé, "Le Salon d'Automne," "Gazette des Beaux-Arts," July 1907, vol. 38, p. 402.
Etta Cone, "The Cone Collection of Baltimore-Maryland," Baltimore: Etta Cone, 1934, p. 26 (published as "Portrait de G.S.").
Gertrude Stein, "L'Atelier de Gertrude Stein," "Gazette des Beaux-Arts," January 1934, no. 140, vol. 11, p. 234.
Hedy Hahnloser- Bühler, "Félix Vallotton et Ses Amis," Paris: Éditions A. Sedrowski, 1936, p. 352, pl. 38, no.62, ill. (published as "Mademoiselle Gertrude Stein").
Florent Fels, "L'Art Vivant de 1900 à Nos Jours," Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1950, p. 225, ill.
Gertrude Rosenthal, "Portraits of Gertrude Stein in the Collections of the Baltimore Museum," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," April 1951, vol. XIV, no. 7, p. 1-2, inside cover, ill.
"Pictures for a Picture of Gertrude Stein as a Collector and Writer on Art and Artists," New Haven: Yale University Press, 1951, pp. 42-43, no. 38.
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. 41, no. 119 (published as "Portrait of Gertrude Stein").
B. L. Reid, "Art by Subtraction: A Dissenting Opinion of Gertrude Stein," Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1958, xiii, ill. (published as "Portrait of Gerturde Stein in 1907")
Barbara Pollack, "The Collectors: D. Claribel and Miss Etta Cone," Indianapolis: The Bobbs Merrill Company, Inc., 1962, pp. 215, 230, ill.
"Loans to Other Institutions September 1964 through March 1965," "News of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 1967, vol. 28, nos. 2, 3 and 4, p. 25.
George Boas, Adelyn Breeskin, and Gertrude Rosenthal, "Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings in the Cone Collection," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1967, p. 69, no. 112 (published as "Portrait of Gertrude Stein").
George Wickes, "Americans in Paris," New York: Da Capo Press, 1969, no. 5, ill.
Francois Daulte and Hedy Hahnloser-Buhler, "Felix Vallotton: A Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings, Drawings, Woodcuts and Engravings," New York: Hirschl & Adler Galleries, 1970, no. 3, ill.
Hilton Kramer, "Felix Vallotton: A Few Fireworks in a Damp Sky," "The New York Times," April 19, 1970, p. 109, ill. (published as "Portrait of Gertrude Stein").
Henry A. La Farge, "Félix the Nabi," "Art News," April 1970, vol. 69, no. 2, pp. 48, 49, p. 48, ill.
The Museum of Modern Art, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1970, pp. 80, 173 (published as "Gertrude Stein").
Joseph T. Butler, "The American Way with Art," "The Connoisseur," October 1971, vol. 178, no. 716, p. 133, fig. 3, ill. (published as "Portrait of Gertrude Stein").
Douglas Cooper, Irene Gordon, Lucile M. Golson, Ellen B. Hirschland, Leon Katz and William Voss Elder, III, "Four Americans in Paris: The Collections of Gertrude Stein and Her Family," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1971, p. 28 (published as "Gertrude Stein").
Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, "The Graphic Art of Félix Vallotton," Los Angeles: The Grunwald Graphic Arts Foundation, 1972, no. 7.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Cone Collection from the Baltimore Museum of Art: A Benefit Exhibition at Wildenstein," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1974, no. 53.
James R. Mellow, "Charmed Circle: Gertrude Stein & Company," New York: Praeger, 1974, pp. 97, 101, n.p., ill. (published as "Gertrude Stein").
Rudolf Koella, "Félix Vallotton," Zurich: Diogenes Verlag AG, 1979, no. 18, pp. 18 and134, ill. (published as "Portrait Gertrude Stein").
Günter Busch, "Félix Vallotton Leben und Werk," Frauenfeld: Verlag Huber, 1982, p. 111, ill.
Brenda Richardson, "Dr. Claribel & Miss Etta: The Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1985, pp. 15, 176.
Frank R. Shivers Jr., "Maryland Wits & Baltimore Bards,"Baltimore: Maclay & Associates, Inc., 1985, p. 280, ill.
Günter Busch, "Vallotton," Lausanne: La Bibliothèque des Arts,1985, no. 134, pp. 87, 147, 235, ill.
Leroy C. Breunig, ed., "Apollinaire on Art: Essays and Reviews 1902-1918 by Guillaume Apollinaire," New York: Da Capo, 1988, p. 29 (published as "Mlle. Stein").
Marina Ducrey, "Félix Vallotton: La Vie, La Technique, l'Oeuvre Peint," Lausanne, Switzerland: Edita, 1989, p. 18.
Renate Stendhal, "Gertrude Stein: Ein Leben in Bildern und Texten," Zurich: Arche, 1989, pp. 74, 288, p. 74, ill.
Sasha M. Newman, "Félix Vallotton," New Haven: Yale University Art Gallery, Abbeville Press, 1991, pp. 117-118, 265, 300, 316, 327, pl. 139, ill.
John Richardson with Marilyn McCully, "A Life of Picasso, volume 1, 1881-1906" New York: Random House, 1991, pp. 400, p. 408, ill.
John Russell, "Trying on One Idiom After Another," "The New York Times," December 8, 1991, p. H36.
William Zimmer, "Show at Yale Recalls a Bourgeois Rebel," "The New York Times," November 17, 1991, p. CN 26, ill.
Brooks Adams, "The Swiss Nabi," "Art in America," March 1992, p. 76.
Patricia C. Johnson, "Felix Vallotton," "The Houston Chronicle," February 2, 1992, pp. 14, 16, p. 14, ill.
Jude Schwendenwien, "Regional Reviews," "Art New England," April/May 1992, p. 41.
Jean-Pierre Cuzin, "Copier Créer," Paris: Editions de la Réunion des musées nationaux, 1993, p. 420 (published as Portrait of Gertrude Stein).
Andrew Patner, "Loyal Citizens of Baltimore," "Art & Antiques," June 1995, vol. XVIII, no. 6, p. 65, ill.
Rudolf Koella, "Félix Vallotton," Bonn: VG Bild-Kunst, 1995, no. 15, pp. 19-20, ill.
Frank R. Shivers, Jr., "Walking in Baltimore: An Intimate Guide to the Old City," Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 pp. 260, 315, ill. p. 260.
Nobuyuki Senzoku and Akira Tomita, "Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art," Tokyo: Brain Trust Inc., 1996, p. 38, fig. 22, ill.
"The Mother of Us All," Baltimore Opera Company, 1997, program cover, ill.
Gary Tinterow and Philip Conisbee, eds., "Portraits by Ingres: Image of an Epoch," New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1999, pp. 16, 19, 596, fig. 27, ill.
Marina Ducrey, "Le Très Singulier Vallotton," Lyon/Marseille: Musée des Beaux-Arts and Musée Cantini, 2001, p. 211.
Mary Gabriel, "The Art of Acquiring: A Portrait of Etta and Claribel Cone," Baltimore: Bancroft Press, 2002, pp. 155-156, n.p., ill.
Marina Ducrey with Katia Poletti, "Félix Vallotton 1865-1925 L'oeuvre peint Catalogue Raisonné, vols. 1, 2," Zurich/Lausanne: Institut Suisse pour l'étude de l'art; Fondation Félix Vallotton; 5 Continents, 2005, pp. 247-248, 369-371, no.612, fig. 277, ill.
Christoph Becker and Linda Schädler, "Félix Vallotton: Idyll on the Edge," Zurich: Scheidegger & Spiess, 2007, pp. 68-69, 185, no. 29, ill. (published as "Gertrude Stein").
Ellen B. Hirschland and Nancy Hirschland Ramage, "The Cone Sisters of Baltimore: Collecting at Full Tilt," Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2008, pp. 52-53, 142, 143, 145, 245, 279, figs. 3.11, 6.8, ill.
Lucy Daniel, "Gertrude Stein," London: Reaktion Books, Ltd., 2009, p. 90, ill.
Janet Bishop, Cécile Debray, and Rebecca Rabinow, eds., "The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde," San Francisco: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2011, pp. 43, 234, 266, 317, 467, 491, no. 441, pl. 206, ill.
Wanda M. Corn and Tirza True Latimer, "Seeing Gertrude Stein: Five Stories," San Francisco: Contemporary Jewish Museum, 2011, no. 11, pp. 24, 25, 38, 49, 161, 341, ill.
Félix Vallotton. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2019.
Inscribed: Recto: Lower left in paint, "F. VALLOTTON.07"
