Henri Matisse
Girl with Aquarium
1930
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Henri Matisse
Girl with Aquarium
1930
Physical Qualities
Graphite with erasing on paper, Sheet: 240 × 321 mm. (9 7/16 × 12 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
The Cone Collection, formed by Dr. Claribel Cone and Miss Etta Cone of Baltimore, Maryland
Object Number
1950.12.38
Matisse’s prints and drawings provided him with a library of images to be put aside for a time and reopened later with a fresh perspective. The vivid oil portrait of Matisse’s model, companion, and muse, Lydia Delectorskaya, from 1935, intensifies a pose explored casually in an earlier series of small etchings from 1929 in which a woman gazes, with dreamy disinterest, at goldfish in a bowl.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest 1949; Etta Cone, Baltimore (Aug. 19, 1937); Galerie Rosengart, Lucerne, 1937, from the artist (see Angela Rosengart's letter)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY, "Matisse in the Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," 24 August - 14 October 1979.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, First Cone Case Installation, 14 June - 20 October 1986.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Spirited Line," 7 September - 2 November 1986.
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, "Matisse: le rythme et la ligne," 24 February - 10 May 1987, cat 403.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Rotation, 22 April - 16 September 1993.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August 1995; traveled to The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November 1997 - 19 January 1997 (brochure from Cleveland, fig. 6).
"Matisse and Modern Masters from The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 3 October - 28 December, 1996; Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 8 January - 11 February, 1997.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, "Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 11, 2000 - June 25, 2000; circulated to the Birmingham Museum of Art, July 23, 2000 - September 17, 2000; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 10, 2000 - January 28, 2001.
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Matisse and American Drawing," September 26 - December 12, 2004, fig. 3 (illus).
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, "Matisse in Transition: Portraits of Lorette," 28 January - 16 April 2006 (Guggenheim venue cancelled).
Jay Fisher, American Federation of the Arts, "Matisse as Printmaker," The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010; circulating to The Tampa Museum of Art, January 29, 2010 - April 10, 2010, and Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, October 29, 2010 - February 13, 2011.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Matisse Prints and Drawings," December 9, 2015 - July 10 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 Baltimore Museum of Art, First Cone Case Installation, 14 June - 20 October 1986.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "The Spirited Line," 7 September - 2 November 1986.
Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, "Matisse: le rythme et la ligne," 24 February - 10 May 1987, cat 403.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Cone Rotation, 22 April - 16 September 1993.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, "Matisse, Picasso and Friends: Masterworks on Paper from the Cone Collection," 7 June - 27 August 1995; traveled to The Cleveland Museum of Art, 17 November 1997 - 19 January 1997 (brochure from Cleveland, fig. 6).
"Matisse and Modern Masters from The Cone Collection of The Baltimore Museum of Art," Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 3 October - 28 December, 1996; Osaka Municipal Museum of Art, 8 January - 11 February, 1997.
The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, "Matisse from The Baltimore Museum of Art," March 11, 2000 - June 25, 2000; circulated to the Birmingham Museum of Art, July 23, 2000 - September 17, 2000; The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, October 10, 2000 - January 28, 2001.
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, "Matisse and American Drawing," September 26 - December 12, 2004, fig. 3 (illus).
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, "Matisse in Transition: Portraits of Lorette," 28 January - 16 April 2006 (Guggenheim venue cancelled).
Jay Fisher, American Federation of the Arts, "Matisse as Printmaker," The Baltimore Museum of Art, October 25, 2009 - January 3, 2010; circulating to The Tampa Museum of Art, January 29, 2010 - April 10, 2010, and Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, October 29, 2010 - February 13, 2011.
Jay Fisher, The Baltimore Museum of Art, "New Arrivals: Matisse Prints and Drawings," December 9, 2015 - July 10 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.
"Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings in the Cone Collection," BMA rev ed. 1967, cat 197, (not illus).
Bernard Chaet, "The Art of Drawing" (NY: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1970), fig. 3, p. 3.
Guillaud, Maurice, and Jacqueline Guillaud. Matisse: le rythme et la ligne. Paris: Guillaud Editions, 1987, plate no. 403 (published as “Femme à l’aquarium”).
Jeans Selz, "Matisse" (NY: Crown Publishers, 1990), illus. p. 80.
Senzoku, Nobuyuki, ed. Matisse and Modern Masters from the Cone Collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art = Kon korekushon ten. [Tokyo]: "Kon Korekushon" Ten Katarogu Iinkai, 1996, page 101, no. 48.
Cozzi, Leslie and Katherine Rothkopf (eds). "A Modern Influence: Henri Matisse, Etta Cone, and Baltimore." Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 2021. ill.
Inscribed: lower left in graphite: "Henri- Matisse"
