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Portrait of Berthe Morisot with a Fan

Édouard ManetLinkedCulture matchlcp-1088101e6ec3

Date: 1874
Medium: Watercolor over traces of graphite on cream wove paper
Culture: France
Department: Prints and Drawings
Institution: Art Institute of Chicago
Object ID: 18667

Édouard Manet represented his close friend artist Berthe Morisot twelve times between 1868 and 1874 in etching, lithography, oil paint, and watercolor. In this watercolor Manet used a limited palette and a combination of techniques to depict Morisot against a blue-green background. He worked wet-into-wet for her dress, applying wet pigment onto an already wet surface before it had time to dry, which allowed the marks to bleed and blend into one another. Then Manet used a dry-brush technique to emphasize the texture of the fabric of her dress and the ribbon in her hair. Both these textures contrast with the relative flatness of the muted background, making the sitter stand out.

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Credit line: Helen Regenstein Collection
Provenance: Possibly Jean-Baptiste Faure (1830–1914), Paris, probably after 1902, but by Sept. 1906. Paul Cassirer (1871–1926), Berlin, by 1910 [according to New York, 1983 exh. cat.]; given to his wife Tilla Durieux-Cassirer (née Ottilie Godefroy; 1880–1971), Berlin, by 1922 [Walter Feilchenfeldt, May 30, 2001, in curatorial object file; and Édouard Manet, 1922]; returned to the Cassirer family, 1926 [Tilla Durieux, Meine ersten neunzig Jahre (Herbig, 1971]; placed on consignment by Paul Cassirer’s daughter, Suzanne Aimée Bernfeld (née Cassirer; 1896–1963), to Walter Feilchenfeldt (1894–1953) of Paul Cassirer, Amsterdam, Mar. 1935; sold to Margarete Oppenheim (1857–1935), Berlin, June 1935 [Walter Feilchenfeldt, June 9, 2003, in curatorial object file]; by descent to her stepdaughter, Martha Oppenheim–von Simson (1882–1971), Berlin [Vita Petersen, telephone conversation with Suzanne Folds McCullagh, June 28, 2001]; to her daughter, Vita Petersen (née von Simson; 1915–2011), New York, by 1937 [Vita Petersen, telephone conversation with Suzanne Folds McCullagh, June 28, 2001]; to Justin K. Thannhauser (1892–1976), New York [Thannhauser stock card no. 2874; and Janet Briner, Silva-Casa Foundation, to the Art Institute of Chicago, June 10, 2001, in curatorial object file]; sold to the Art Institute, 1963.

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