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AT-00009215Berthe Morisot with a Muff
About the Artwork
This is one of two portraits Manet painted of Morisot dressed for winter in a heavy coat and feathered hat. (See Berthe Morisot with a Half Veil, also in this gallery.) Manet’s wide brushstrokes and crosshatchings, which describe areas of shadow, evoke the sketchy quality of Morisot’s own paintings, likely Manet’s nod to his subject’s identity as an artist.
Provenance
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
Exhibition history
Style, Truth and the Portrait. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 1-November 19, 1963). Édouard Manet. Philadelphia Museum of Art (organizer) (November 3-December 11, 1966); The Art Institute of Chicago (January 13-February 19, 1967). Manet. Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden (organizer) (February 7-May 12, 1985). Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994). Masters of Impressionism. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico (November 17, 1998-February 28, 1999). 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). An Intimate Vision--Women Impressionsts: Bracquemond, Cassatt, Gonzalès, and Morisot. Bilbao Fine Arts Museum, 48011 Bilbao, Spain (organizer) (November 12, 2001-February 3, 2002). Rétrospective Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France (organizer) (March 8-June 9, 2002). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum (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). 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). 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). Edouard Manet. Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (organizer) (October 24, 2017-February 25, 2018). The Impressionists and Photography. Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain (organizer) (October 15, 2019-January 26, 2020). Manet: A Model Family. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA (organizer) (October 10, 2024-January 20, 2025) https://www.gardnermuseum.org/calendar/manet-model-family. Manet & Morisot. Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA (organizer) (October 11, 2025-February 15, 2026) https://www.famsf.org/exhibitions/manet-morisot; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (March 29-July 5, 2026).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
- Date
- c. 1871–72
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 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.)
- Type
- Painting
- Classification
- Painting
- Department
- Modern European Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1958.34
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