{"data": {"id": 703436, "accession_number": "2025.209", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Sewing near the Window, about 1885. Berthe Morisot (French, 1841\u20131895). Watercolor and graphite on paper; sheet: 28.6 x 22.9 cm (11 1/4 x 9 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund, 2025.209", "current_location": null, "title": "Sewing near the Window", "creation_date": "about 1885", "creation_date_earliest": 1880, "creation_date_latest": 1890, "artists_tags": ["female"], "culture": ["France"], "technique": "watercolor and graphite on paper", "support_materials": [], "department": "Drawings", "collection": "DR - French", "type": "Drawing", "measurements": "Sheet: 28.6 x 22.9 cm (11 1/4 x 9 in.)", "dimensions": {"sheet": {"height": 0.286, "height_inch": 11, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.229, "width_inch": 9, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [{"inscription": "At lower right, in purple ink: stamped signature [Lugt 1826]; inscribed on verso, top center, in pencil: Portrait de la bonne de Mme Rouart (E[rnest] / Pasie (Euphrasie) / execute vers 1885 / cong\u00e9di\u00e9e vers 1885 / cousant au rez de chaus\u00e9e devant / bow window dominant sur jardin / toit des \u00e9curies sur la droite", "inscription_translation": null, "inscription_remark": null, "sortorder": null}], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 668924, "title": "Manet & Morisot", "description": "<i>Manet & Morisot</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (co-organizer) (March 29-July 5, 2026).", "opening_date": "2025-10-11T04:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt</em>. Baltimore Museum of Art (April 18 \u2013 June 3, 1962).", "opening_date": null}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "By descent from the artist [1841-1895]", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "c. 1885-1895", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "Madame Ernest Rouart (n\u00e9e Julie Manet) [1878-1966], Paris", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1895-around 1960", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "(Charles Slatkin Gallery, New York, sold to Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Rogers)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "around 1960", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "Mr. and Mrs. Leo M. Rogers, New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "around 1960-1972", "sortorder": 4}, {"description": "(their sale, Christie\u2019s, London, June 27, 1972, no. 108, likely sold to L\u2019Art Ancien)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1972", "sortorder": 5}, {"description": "(L\u2019Art Ancien, Zurich, sold to Ian Woodner)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1972-1973", "sortorder": 6}, {"description": "Ian Woodner [1903-1990], New York, by descent", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1973-1990", "sortorder": 7}, {"description": "Private collection, New York", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1990-2025", "sortorder": 8}, {"description": "(W. M. Brady & Co., New York, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2025", "sortorder": 9}, {"description": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2025-", "sortorder": 10}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Edgar Degas admired Berthe Morisot\u2019s watercolors, and seeing an example inspired him to invite her to participate in the Impressionists\u2019 first group exhibition.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This watercolor depicts Euphrasie, or Pasie, the nanny for Berthe Morisot\u2019s young daughter Julie. Pasie appears in the artist\u2019s apartment, sewing before a window during a contemplative moment. As with many of Morisot\u2019s works in the medium, she used this example to develop the composition of a future painting into which she added Julie and more tightly cropped the scene. Watercolor was a constant interest for Morisot, and she practiced it from around 1870 throughout the rest of her career, creating both finished and preparatory works.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": [], "internet_archive": []}, "citations": [{"citation": "Bataille, M.-L. and G. Wildenstein. <em>Berthe Morisot</em>: <em>Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles</em>. Paris: Les Beaux-Arts, 1961.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 67, no. 729; Reproduced: fig. 718.", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>Paintings, Drawings and Graphic Works by Manet, Degas, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt</em>. Exh. Cat. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1962.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 58, no. 86.", "url": ""}, {"citation": "<em>The Leo M. Rogers Collection</em>. London: Christie, Manson &amp; Woods, 1972.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 13, no. 108. Reproduced: pl. 108.", "url": ""}], "catalogue_raisonne": "Bataille and Wildenstein 729", "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2025.209", "images": {"annotation": null, "web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2025.209/2025.209_web.jpg", "width": "723", "height": "900", "filesize": "222517", "filename": "2025.209_web.jpg"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2025.209/2025.209_print.jpg", "width": "2731", "height": "3400", "filesize": "3676213", "filename": "2025.209_print.jpg"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2025.209/2025.209_full.tif", "width": "8212", "height": "10222", "filesize": "251859344", "filename": "2025.209_full.tif"}}, "alternate_images": [{"web": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2025.209/2025.209_alt0_web.jpg", "width": "723", "height": "900", "filesize": "208820"}, "print": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2025.209/2025.209_alt0_print.jpg", "width": "2731", "height": "3400", "filesize": "4517881"}, "full": {"url": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2025.209/2025.209_alt0_full.tif", "width": "8212", "height": "10222", "filesize": "251857460"}, "date_created": "2026-01-27T13:37:13", "annotation": ""}], "creditline": "Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": null, "athena_id": 703436, "creators": [{"id": 1865, "description": "Berthe Morisot (French, 1841\u20131895)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Born into a prosperous family, Berthe Morisot was encouraged at an early age to become an amateur artist. Along with her sister Edma, she began her studies with Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne (act. 1838-1857), a painter trained in the neoclassical tradition. In 1858 the sisters entered the studio of Joseph-Beno\u00eet Guichard (1806-1880), a student of Ingres (q.v.) and Delacroix (q.v.). Through Guichard they met Corot (q.v.) in 1861, under whose encouragement they began to paint out of doors near Pontoise as well as in Normandy and Brittany. Berthe Morisot exhibited at the Salon from 1864 until 1873. Fantin-Latour (q.v.) introduced her to Manet (q.v.) around 1867. They developed a close friendship, and Morisot modeled for him many times (see Manet, Berthe Morisot, no. 141). In 1874 she married his brother, Eug\u00e8ne, and that same year began participating in the impressionist exhibitions, never to show at the Salon again. Four years after their marriage, the couple's only child, Julie, was born on 14 November 1878 and would become a main source of artistic inspiration. Morisot matured as a central member of the group of impressionists. Her home became a meeting place for painters and writers alike, including Renoir (q.v.), Degas (q.v.), Mary Cassatt (1845-1926), and St\u00e9phane Mallarm\u00e9. She participated in the Drouot sale of 1875, where the artists were ridiculed extensively. Her paintings, however, fetched slightly higher prices than those of Renoir, Monet (q.v.), and Sisley (q.v.). Morisot made pastels and watercolors as well as oil paintings, and during the final years of her life she experimented with lithography and drypoint etching.", "name_in_original_language": null, "birth_year": "1841", "death_year": "1895", "use_in_caption": true, "include_extent": false, "weight": 1}], "legal_status": "accessioned", "accession_date": "2025-12-08T05:00:00Z", "sortable_date": 1880, "date_added_to_oa": null, "date_text": "about 1885", "collapse_artists": false, "on_loan": false, "recently_acquired": true, "record_type": "object", "conservation_statement": null, "has_conservation_images": false, "cover_accession_number": null, "is_nazi_era_provenance": false, "impression": null, "alternate_titles": [], "is_highlight": false, "updated_at": "2026-10-15 20:05:52.572000"}}