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Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot

c. 1869–73
(French, 1832–1883)
Framed: 91.1 x 76.5 x 7.3 cm (35 7/8 x 30 1/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 74 x 60 cm (29 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.)

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Manet kept this portrait of Morisot throughout his life, and it was listed in the inventory of his studio after his death.

Description

This painting depicts the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, who began working closely with Manet around 1868. Manet painted her portrait several times, at first presenting her in static poses with neatly styled hair. As their relationship grew closer, Manet began portraying her in more momentary, fleeting states. She almost appears to be moving in this portrait, her hair disheveled as she throws a furtive glance to the side. Manet’s sketchy brushwork creates a daringly unfinished look, as if echoing the hurried tempo of modern life.
  • 1884
    Artist's studio inventory, Paris, France, 1884
    1884
    (Drouot, Paris, France, February, 1884, Artist's estate sale, sold back to Mrs. Manet)
    1884-1910
    Mrs. Edouard Manet [1829-1906], Paris, France
    1910
    August Pellerin [1853-1929], Paris, France
    1912
    Jules Strauss [1863-1943], Paris, France
    1932
    (Georges Petit, Paris, France, December 1932, lot 48, sold to Turner
    1932-1935
    Turner, London, United Kingdom
    1935-1947
    Jacques Balsan [1868-1956], Paris, France
    1935
    Mrs. Jules Balsan [1877-1964], New York, NY, November 1947, consigned to Knoedler & Co. for sale
    1947
    (Knoedler & Co., New York, NY, November 1947, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.)
    1947-1958
    Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. [1898-1957], Cleveland, OH, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art
    1958-
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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    Duret, Théodore, and J. E. Crawford Flitch. Manet and the French Impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin. London: G. Richards; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910. Mentioned: p. 226, no. 111
    Meier-Graefe, Julius. Edouard Manet. München: Piper, 1912. Reproduced: pl. 93
    Blanche, Jacques-Émile, and Frederick C. de Sumichrast. Manet. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1925. Reproduced: pl. 22
    Duret, Théodore. Histoire de Édouard Manet et de Son Oeuvre: Avec un Catalogue des Peintures et des Pastels. Paris: Bernheim-Jeune, 1926. Mentioned: p. 250, no. 111
    Moreau-Nélaton, Etienne. Manet: Raconté par Lui-même. Paris: H. Laurens, 1926. Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 109; reproduced: vol. 1, fig. 119
    Manet, Édouard. E. Manet: 24 Phototypies: notice de Florent Fels. Paris: Librairie de France, 1928. Reproduced: pl. 12
    Tabarant, A. Manet: Histoire Catalographique. Paris: Éd. Montaigne, 1931. Mentioned: p. 192, no. 140
    Colin, Paul. Édouard Manet. Paris: Floury, 1932. Reproduced: pl. XXXII
    Jamot, Paul, and Georges Wildenstein. Manet. Paris: Les Beaux-arts, édition d'études et de documents, 1932. Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 137, no. 154; reproduced: vol. 2, p. 65, fig. 152
    "Collection Jules Strauss." L'Art et les Artistes 26, no. 131 (November 1932): 71. Reproduced: p. 71
    Bataille, Marie-Louise. "Die Auktion Jules Strauss." Kunst und künstler 32 (1933): 74-75. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 74-75
    Duret, Théodore, and John Ernest Crawford Flitch. Manet. New York: Crown Publishers, 1937. Reproduced: pl. 42
    Laver, James, Michel Sevier, and Alfred Flechtheim. French Painting and the Nineteenth Century. New York: Scribner's, 1937. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 64, no. 64
    Duca, Lo. "L'Art Francese in the Mostre." Emporium 86 (1937): 517-540. Reproduced: p. 533
    Jedlicka, Gotthard. Édouard Manet. Mit 145 abbildungen. Erlenbach-Zürich: E. Rentsch, 1941. Reproduced: opp. p. 132
    Florisoone, Michel. Manet. Monaco: Documents d'art, 1947. Mentioned: p. XXV
    Tabarant, A. Manet et Ses Oeuvres. [Paris]: Gallimard, 1947. Reproduced: p. 144; mentioned: p.157-158
    Louchheim, Aline B. "Private Collectors: On Loan at the Metropolitan." The New York Times (July 17, 1949): 6x. Reproduced: p. 6x
    Venturi, Lionello. Impressionists and Symbolists: Manet, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir, Cezanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec. New York: Scribner, 1950. Mentioned: p. 18; reproduced: fig. 9
    Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College, 1955. Reproduced: vol. 2, p. 15
    Cleveland Museum of Art. In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Cleveland: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Reproduced: no. 18
    Frankfurter, Alfred M. “Cleveland: Model Museum for a Modern Cosmopolis.” ARTnews 57 (March 1958): 24–37. Reproduced: p. 37
    "Accessions of American and Canadian Museums." Art Quarterly 21, no. 1 (Spring 1958): 83-104. Reproduced: p. 104
    “Annual Report of the Year 1958.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 46, no. 6 (June 1959): 111–158. Mentioned: p. 122 www.jstor.org
    Saisselin, Rémy G. Style, Truth, and the Portrait. [Cleveland]: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1963. Reproduced: cat. no. 87
    Henning, E. B. “Cleveland Museum of Art: From Turner to Guston.” Apollo: The International Magazine for Collectors 78 (December 1963): 481–88. Reproduced: p. 484
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. Reproduced: p. 172 archive.org
    Philadelphia Museum of Art, and Anne Coffin Hanson. Édouard Manet, 1832-1883. [Exhibition] Philadelphia Museum of Art, November 3-December 11, 1966; the Art Institute of Chicago, January 13-February 19, 1967. 1966. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 105, p. 121, 123
    Aymar, Gordon Christian. The Art of Portrait Painting; Portraits Through the Centuries As Seen Through the Eyes of a Practicing Portrait Painter. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co, 1967. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 206, pl. 100
    Orienti,Sandra, and Marcello Venturi. L'Opera Pittorica di Edouard Manet. Milano: Rizzoli, 1967. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 98, no. 124
    Neugass, Fritz. "Manet-Ausstellung in den USA." Die Weltkunst. The World-art Review 37 (15 January 1967): 50-51. Mentioned: p. 51
    Neilson, Winthrop, and Frances Fullerton Neilson. Seven Women: Great Painters. Philadelphia: Chilton Book Co, 1968. Mentioned: p. 59-60; reproduced: pl. 8
    Bodelsen, Merete (Christensen). “Early Impressionist Sales 1874-94 in the Light of Some Unpublished ‘Procès-Verbaux.’” Burlington Magazine 110 (February 1968): 330–49. Reproduced: p. 343
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. Reproduced: p. 172 archive.org
    Hess, Thomas B., and Linda Nochlin. "Woman as Sex Object." ARTnews Annual 38 (1972): 84. Reproduced: p. 84
    Rouart, Denis, and Daniel Wildenstein. Édouard Manet: Catalogue Raisonné. Lausanne: Bibliothèque des arts, 1975. Mentioned and reproduced: vol. 1, p. 128-129, no. 138
    Hanson, Anne Coffin. Manet and the Modern Tradition. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1977. Reproduced: pl. 43
    The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 211 archive.org
    Monneret, Sophie. L'Impressionnisme et Son Epoque: Dictionnaire International Illustré. Paris: Denoël, 1978. Mentioned: vol. 2, p. 19
    Wentworth, Michael. James Tissot: Catalogue Raisonné of His Prints.
    Minneapolis, Minn.: Minneapolis Institute of Arts,1978. Reproduced: p. 145, fig. 31e
    Holten, Ragnar von, and Édouard Manet. Manet i närbild. Stockholm: Nationalmuseum, 1985. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 63, p. 92
    Keller, Horst. Edouard Manet. München: Bruckmann, 1989. Reproduced: p. 99, no. 73; mentioned: p. 173, no. 73
    Cachin, Françoise. Manet. [Paris]: Chêne, 1990. Reproduced: p. 151, no. 3
    Higonnet, Anne. Berthe Morisot. New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, 1990. Reproduced: pl. 8
    Opfell, Olga S. Special Visions: Profiles of Fifteen Women Artists from the Renaissance to the Present Day. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1991. Reproduced: p. 71
    Cleveland Museum of Art. Masterpieces from East and West. New York, NY: Rizzoli International, 1992. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 151
    Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 140
    Brombert, Beth Archer. Edouard Manet: Rebel in a Frock Coat. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996. Mentioned: p. 264; reproduced: fig. 28
    Körner, Hans. Edouard Manet: Dandy, Flaneur, Maler. München: W. Fink, 1996. Reproduced: p. 136, fig. 104
    Shennan, Margaret. Berthe Morisot, the First Lady of Impressionism. Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Pub, 1996. Mentioned: p. 90
    Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico). Maestros del impresionismo. México, D.F.: Istituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1998. Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 96-97
    Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico). Maestros del Impresionismo. México, D.F.: Istituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1998. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 96-97
    Johnston, Sona. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. New York, NY : Rizzoli, 1999. Reproduced: p. 169, cat. no. 35
    D' Argencourt, Louise, and Roger Diederen. Catalogue of Paintings. Pt. 4. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1974. Mentioned and reproduced: Vol. 2, p. 408-410, no. 141
    Johnston, Sona, Susan Bollendorf, and John House. Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. [Baltimore, Md.]: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International, 1999. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 108-109, no. 35
    Bray, Xavier, Bill Scott, and Juliet Wilson-Bareau. Mujeres impresionistas: la otra mirada : Sala BBK, 12 de novembre de 2001-3 de febrero de 2002. [Bilbao]: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2001. Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 3, p. 58-59
    Bray, Xavier, Bill Scott, and Juliet Wilson-Bareau. Mujeres Impresionistas: la Otra Mirada : Sala BBK, 12 de novembre de 2001-3 de febrero de 2002. [Bilbao]: Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, 2001. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 58-59, no. 3
    Locke, Nancy. Manet and the Family Romance. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001. Mentioned: p. 148; Reproduced: p. 151, fig. 79
    Morisot, Berthe. Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895: Lille, Palais des beaux-arts, 10 mars-9 juin 2002, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 20 juin-19 novembre 2002. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002. Mentioned: cat. no. 162, p. 454-455
    Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895: Lille, Palais des beaux-arts, 10 mars-9 juin 2002, Martigny, Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 20 juin-19 novembre 2002. Paris: Réunion des musées nationaux, 2002. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 454-455, no. 162
    Stevens, Mary Anne. Manet, Portraying Life. Toledo: Toledo Museum of Art; London: Royal Academy of Arts; New York: Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2012. Reproduced: p. 101, no. 19
    Kelly, Simon, and Esther Bell. Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade. San Francisco, CA: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco-Legion of Honor ; Munic ; DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, a member of Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, 2017. Reproduced: p. 150-151, no. 29
    Conzen, Ina. "Die Flaneuse - Manets Bilder von Frauen." In Edouard Manet. Gerhard Finckh, ed., 41-49. Wuppertal: Von der Heydt-Museum, 2017. Reproduced: p. 45, 211
  • The Impressionists and Photography. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (October 15, 2019-January 26, 2020).
    Edouard Manet. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (organizer) (October 24, 2017-February 25, 2018).
    Degas, Impressionism & the Paris Millinery Trade. Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (organizer) (February 12-May 7, 2017); Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (June 24-September 24, 2017).
    Manet: Portraying Life. The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH (October 4, 2012-January 1, 2013); Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (organizer) (January 26-April 14, 2013).
    Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (May 26-August 27, 2006); Mori Art Center (September 16-November 26, 2006); Seoul Art Center, South Korea (December 22, 2006-March 28, 2007); Seoul Olympic Museum of Art, South Korea (April 7-May 20, 2007); Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (June 9-September 16, 2007); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008); Frist Art Museum, Nashville, TN (February 15-June 1, 2008); Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (June 22-September 21, 2008); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (October 12, 2008-January 18, 2009).
    Rétrospective Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France (organizer) (March 8-June 9, 2002).
    An Intimate Vision--Women Impressionsts: Bracquemond, Cassatt, Gonzalès, and Morisot. Museo de Bellas Artes, Bilbao, 48011 Bilbao, Spain (organizer) (November 12, 2001-February 3, 2002).
    Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections. The Baltimore Museum of Art (organizer) (October 10, 1999-January 30, 2000); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (March 25-May 7, 2000); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (May 28-July 30, 2000).
    Masters of Impressionism. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico (November 17, 1998-February 28, 1999).
    Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).
    Manet. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden (organizer) (February 7-May 12, 1985).
    manchon, prêté par M. Balsan, Paris, France.
    Édouard Manet. Philadelphia Museum of Art (organizer) (November 3-December 11, 1966); The Art Institute of Chicago (January 13-February 19, 1967).
    Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963).
    Summer Loan: group of fourteen Hanna paintings. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (June-September 1949).
    A Loan Exhibition of Manet. Wildenstein, New York, NY (1948).
    Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum. Honderd Jaar Fransche Kunst. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1938).
    Exhibition of Masters of French Nineteenth Century Painting. New Burlington Galleries, London, United Kingdom (1936).
    L'impressionnisme. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium (1935).
    Quelques oeuvres importantes de Manet à Van Gogh. Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, France. (1932).
    Exposition Manet 1832-1883. Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris, France (1932).
    Exposition d'oeuvres de Manet.Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (1928).
    Le décor de la vie sous le Second Empire. Pavillon de Marsan, Palais du Louvre, Paris, France (1922).
    Exposition d'art français du XIXe siècle. Galeries Paul Rosenberg, Paris, France (1917).
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