Cleveland Museum of Art
Young Saint John
Berthe MorisotLinkedCulture matchlcp-9381859313bb
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- pastel on pale blue laid paper
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Department
- Drawings
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 148371
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
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. This pastel's first owner was Berthe Morisot's daughter, Julie Manet, and her husband Ernest Rouart.
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- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Lewis B. Williams
- 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
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