Portrait of Berthe Morisot. Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets is an 1872 oil painting by Édouard Manet.
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 the same composition. Manet became acquainted with Berthe Morisot in 1868.
She was the grand-niece of Fragonard, and also a painter; Morisot and Manet influenced each other's work. He painted her portrait many times, including his earlier work The Balcony.
She married Manet's brother Eugène in 1874. Manet had remained in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, and served in the Garde Nationale to defend the city in the Siege of Paris. He was unable to paint while he was serving, and left Paris after the city surrendered at the end of January 1871. He returned to painting later in 1871, and returned to Paris after the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871. This painting was one of several portraits of a black-clad Morisot by Manet between 1872 and 1874: others show her with a pink shoe, with a fan, and veiled. The half-length portrait is on a canvas measuring 55.5 × 40.5 centimetres-71.5 × 57.5 centimetres with frame-and is signed Manet 72 in the upp
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 the same composition. Manet became acquainted with Berthe Morisot in 1868.
She was the grand-niece of Fragonard, and also a painter; Morisot and Manet influenced each other's work. He painted her portrait many times, including his earlier work The Balcony.
She married Manet's brother Eugène in 1874. Manet had remained in Paris during the Franco-Prussian War in 1870-71, and served in the Garde Nationale to defend the city in the Siege of Paris. He was unable to paint while he was serving, and left Paris after the city surrendered at the end of January 1871. He returned to painting later in 1871, and returned to Paris after the defeat of the Paris Commune in May 1871. This painting was one of several portraits of a black-clad Morisot by Manet between 1872 and 1874: others show her with a pink shoe, with a fan, and veiled. The half-length portrait is on a canvas measuring 55.5 × 40.5 centimetres-71.5 × 57.5 centimetres with frame-and is signed Manet 72 in the upp
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