Young Saint John
1890
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
Drawings
Young Saint John, 1890. Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895). Pastel on pale blue laid paper; 57.1 x 38.1 cm (22 1/2 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mrs. Lewis B. Williams 1975.83 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.
- Maker/Artist
- Morisot, Berthe
- Classification
- Drawing
- Formatted Medium
- pastel on pale blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 57.1 x 38.1 cm (22 1/2 x 15 in.)
- Departments
- Drawings
- Accession Number
- 1975.83
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Lewis B. Williams
- Exhibitions
- French Art Since Eighteen Hundred, Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot, Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art, <em>Berthe Morisot, exposition de son œuvre</em>. Durand-Ruel, Paris (March 5–21, 1896).
- Rights Statement
- CC0
- Museum Location
- 101A Prints & Drawings
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