Berthe Morisot
c. 1869–73
Medium
oil on fabric
Dimensions
unframed: 74 × 60 cm · framed: 91.1 × 76.5 × 7.3 cm
Classification
Painting
Department
Modern European Painting and Sculpture
Museum
Cleveland Museum of Art
Credit
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
Accession Number
1958.34
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About this artwork
This painting depicts Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot, who met Édouard Manet at the Musée du Louvre in Paris in 1868. This portrait vibrates with vitality. Morisot wears a coat and stylish hat from which wisps of her dark hair escape. Manet’s wide brushstrokes and cross-hatchings evoke the sketchy quality of Morisot’s own paintings, likely Manet’s nod to his subject’s identity as an artist. He made nine portraits of her in oil, watercolor, lithography, and etching during 1868–74. Initially ...