Berthe Morisot
Catalogue des Peintures, Pastels et Aquarelles
Marie-Louise Bataille and Georges Wildenstein
Berthe Morisot (1841–1895) found her inspiration in family life and in children’s worlds. The artist was remarkably attentive to the ways in which light flickered on the decors, the people, and the objects that surrounded her. Started by Ambroise Vollard during the First World War and completed by Georges Wildenstein and Marie-Louise Bataille in 1961, this catalogue documents Morisot’s œuvre in 416 paintings, 191 pastels, and 238 watercolors.
| Author | Marie-Louise Bataille and Georges Wildenstein |
| 306 pages, 21 x 28 cm 815 black & white figures | |
| Publication Date | 1961 |
| Publisher | Édition d’études et de documents, collection “L’Art français” |
| ISBN | 9781499685220 |
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Who is this woman?
In 1899, while examining Edouard Manet’s Jeune femme voilée at the home of the collector Charles Deudon (1832–1914), Pierre-Auguste Renoir alluded to an “ugly veiled woman” without identifying her (letter dated February 5, 1899 to Paul Durand-Ruel). Renoir did not recognized his close friend Berthe Morisot, who had passed away three years earlier. Yet in 1883 this portrait, which was still in Manet’s studio at the time of his death, was recorded by the auctioneers Chevallier and Lesueur and the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel as “Made Morisot femme voilée” (Estate inventory of Edouard Manet, Étude de Maître Cotelle, Archives Nationales).