Public collection via the Cleveland Museum of Art
AT-00011041About the Artwork
In the spring of 1890 Berthe Morisot and her husband, Eugène Manet, rented a house with a garden overlooking the Seine River in the rural French town of Mézy. Morisot worked in the attic studio while the pair was there. A young boy from the village served as the model for this pastel, one of several studies for a full-length painting of Saint John the Baptist with his cross. In this drawing, Morisot developed the loose and sketchy marks that would characterize her final canvas.
Provenance
after 1896: Mr. [1874–1942] and Mrs. [1878–1966] Ernest Rouart, Paris 1896: (Durand-Ruel, Paris) 1896-by 1929: Private collection by 1929-1975: Mr. [1880–1966] and Mrs. [1879–1980] Lewis B. Williams, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 1975-: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Exhibition history
French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929). Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994). 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).
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
- 1890
- Medium
- pastel on pale blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 57.1 x 38.1 cm (22 1/2 x 15 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Lewis B. Williams
- Accession no.
- 1975.83
More by Berthe Morisot in museum collections
Open-access museum record · AT-00011041
Powered by Art Trackers