MANET, Edouard
(b. 1832, Paris, d. 1883, Paris)

Berthe Morisot with a Bunch of Violets

1872
Oil on canvas, 55 x 38 cm
Musée d'Orsay, Paris

Manet returned several times to painting Berthe Morisot's languishing face and languishing attitudes. He clearly sought something more than the merely pictorial in this strange young woman, who was always dressed soberly in Manet's favourite colours, black and white.




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