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AT-00011023Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat
About the Artwork
This portrait depicts Louise Riesener, daughter of artist Léon Riesener and close friend of Morisot. The artist depicted her subject in bust-length profile wearing a black jacket out of which peek the decorative ties of a white blouse. Morisot paid particular attention to the hat; a fashionable Parisian woman of the upper-middle class would have worn such an accessory whenever she went out in public. Morisot produced nearly 200 pastels during her career, the majority figure studies and portraits brought to varying degrees of finish.
Inscriptions
stamped, bottom right, in ink (faded): collection of Berthe Morisot [L.388a]; watermark, at top center: illegible cartouche; and at bottom center: PL BAS
Provenance
?-?: Georges Lurcy [1891–1953], New York ?-1939: (Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, sold to Leonard C. Hanna, Jr., Cleveland, OH) 1939-1958: Leonard C. Hanna Jr. [1889–1957], Cleveland, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1958-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
Form in the Arts. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 15-November 10, 1959). Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994). Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000). Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 21, 2007-January 13, 2008). Mary Cassatt and the Feminine Ideal in 19th-Century Paris. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (October 14, 2012-January 20, 2013). Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017). Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023). 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
- Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
- Date
- c. 1877–80
- Medium
- pastel on pale blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 55.5 x 46.8 cm (21 7/8 x 18 7/16 in.); Framed: 75.3 x 66.2 x 4.5 cm (29 5/8 x 26 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
- Accession no.
- 1958.41
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