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Woman at her Toilette is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Berthe Morisot, executed between 1875 and 1880. It was first exhibited at the fifth Impressionist exhibition in 1880 and is now in the Art Institute of Chicago . [ 1 ]
The painting was first the property of fellow painter Édouard Manet, to whom Berthe Morisot offered it in 1869. It subsequently changed hands, and was reported as belonging to financier Gabriel Thomas, a cousin of Berthe Morisot, in 1896 . The latter's wife kept it at least until 1941.
Morisot often posed for Manet and there are several portrait paintings of Morisot such as Repose (Portrait of Berthe Morisot) and Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet. [28] Morisot died on March 2, 1895, in Paris, of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie's similar illness, thus making Julie an orphan at the age of 16.
The painting demonstrates both the influence of naturalist master Camille Corot and of impressionist painter Édouard Manet, a friend of Morisot, with whose contemporary work it has some similarities. The influence seems to have been mutual between both painters, and Morisot married Édouard's brother, Eugène Manet, in 1874.
Morisot painted Summer's Day in her typical Impressionist style. She applies large amounts of paint using very flexible brush strokes, so that the finished work has fine lines and spots as well as thick spots. The result is an irregular texture of paint, which deviates completely from the smooth structure prescribed by the art academy of the time.
It depicts fellow painter Berthe Morisot dressed in black mourning dress, with a barely visible bouquet of violets. The painting, sometimes known as Portrait of Berthe Morisot, Berthe Morisot in a black hat or Young woman in a black hat, is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Manet also created an etching and two lithographs of ...
Pages in category "Paintings by Berthe Morisot" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
Repose (Berthe Morisot) 1869 / 1870: 150.2 × 114 cm: Rhode Island School of Design Museum The Funeral: 1867-70: 72.7 × 90.5 cm: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge: 1870: 59.7 × 49.7 cm: National Museum Cardiff: Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets: 1872: 55 × 38 cm: Musée d'Orsay (Paris ...