id: 128072 accession number: 1950.89 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1950.89 updated: 2024-04-10 11:01:07.182000 Reading, 1873. Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895). Oil on fabric; framed: 74.3 x 100.3 x 12.1 cm (29 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.); unframed: 46 x 71.8 cm (18 1/8 x 28 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund 1950.89 title: Reading title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1873 creation date earliest: 1873 creation date latest: 1873 current location: creditline: Gift of the Hanna Fund copyright: --- culture: France, 19th century technique: oil on fabric department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960 type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895) - artist 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-Benoît 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, Eugène, 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 Stéphane Mallarmé. 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. --- measurements: Framed: 74.3 x 100.3 x 12.1 cm (29 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 46 x 71.8 cm (18 1/8 x 28 1/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Signed lower right: [black:] B [in red:] erthe M[in black:] orisot Remnants of a signature lower left: B translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. opening date: 1958-03-04T05:00:00 In Memoriam: Leonard C. Hanna, Jr.. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 4-April 7, 1958). title: Manet, Degas, Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot opening date: 1962-04-17T05:00:00 Manet, Degas, Cassatt, and Berthe Morisot. The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (organizer) (April 17-June 3, 1962). title: Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot opening date: 1993-11-07T05:00:00 Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994). title: Masters of Impressionism opening date: 1998-11-17T00:00:00 Masters of Impressionism. Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes, Mexico (November 17, 1998-February 28, 1999). title: Faces of Impressionism: Portraits from American Collections opening date: 1999-10-10T00:00:00 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). title: Rétrospective Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) opening date: 2002-03-08T00:00:00 Rétrospective Berthe Morisot (1841-1895). Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille, Lille, France (organizer) (March 8-June 9, 2002); Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, Switzerland (June 20-November 19, 2002). title: Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2006-05-27T00:00:00 Monet to Dalí: Modern Masters from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Beijing World Art Museum, China (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). title: Berthe Morisot, Woman of our Time opening date: 2012-03-07T00:00:00 Berthe Morisot, Woman of our Time. Musée Marmottan Monet, 75016, Paris, France (organizer) (March 7-July 1, 2012). title: Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2014-01-15T00:00:00 Admired from Afar: Masterworks of Japanese Painting from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, Japan (January 15-February 23, 2014); Kyushu National Museum, Fukuoka, Japan (July 8-August 31, 2014). title: Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible opening date: 2016-03-18T04:00:00 Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible. The Met Breuer, New York, NY (March 18-September 4, 2016). title: Berthe Morisot, Woman, Impressionist opening date: 2018-06-21T04:00:00 Berthe Morisot, Woman, Impressionist. Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (organizer) (June 21-September 23, 2018); The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (October 20, 2018-January 14, 2019); The Dallas Museum of Art (February 24-May 26, 2019); Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (June 17-September 22, 2019); Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX (October 20, 2019-January 20, 2020). title: Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism opening date: 2024-03-25T04:00:00 Paris 1874: Inventing Impressionism. Musée d'Orsay, Paris, France (organizer) (co-organizer) (March 25-July 12, 2024) https://www.musee-orsay.fr/en/whats-on/exhibitions/paris-1874-inventing-impressionism; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (September 8, 2024-January 20, 2025). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Première Exposition. Société Anonyme. 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris, France (1874).', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'Vom Kaiserreich zur Republik: eine französische Kulturgeschichte des 19. Jahrhunderts. Possibly, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (1917).', 'opening_date': '1917-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Exposition d'oeuvres de Berthe Morisot. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (1917).", 'opening_date': '1917-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': "Exposition d'oeuvres de Berthe Morisot. Bernheim-Jeune, Paris, France (1929).", 'opening_date': '1929-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'French Painting 1100-1900. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (October 18-December 2, 1951).', 'opening_date': '1951-10-18T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE Édouard Daliphard, Poissy date: ? footnotes: *
Daliphard, a landscape painter, was born in Rouen and studied with Gustave Morin and Joseph Quinaux.  Salon catalogues throughout the 1860s and 1870s give his place of residence as Poissy.  Little is known about his collection, and once the Morisot came into his possession, it appears to have disappeared from public view until the twentieth century.  Sales of works in Daliphard’s collection on April 6, 1875 and March 4, 1876 do not contain the Morisot. 
citations: Gabriel Thomas (1851-1932), Paris date: By 1929-1932 footnotes: *
A 1929 exhibition lists Gabriel Thomas, Morisot’s first cousin, as the painting’s current owner.  Thomas died in 1932, but he is still cited as the painting’s owner in Angoulvent’s 1933 catalogue of Morisot’s oeuvre.
citations: Édouard Molyneux [1891-1974], Paris date: ? footnotes: citations: (César de Hauke, Paris, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: Until 1950 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1950- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Bodelsen, Merete. “Early Impressionist Sales 1874-94 in the light of some unpublished ‘procès-verbaux’,” Burlington Magazine CX, no. 783 (June 1968): 335. page number: url: Lindsay, Suzanne Glover. “Berthe Morisot: Nineteenth-Century Woman as Professional,” Perspectives on Morisot. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1990. page number: url: d'Argencourt, Louise, Roger Diederen, and Alisa Luxenberg. European Paintings of the 19th Century. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1999. page number: url: Clairet, Alain, Delphine Montalant, and Yves Rouart. Berthe Morisot: 1841-1895 : Catalogue Raisonné de l'oeuvre peint. 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