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Source Description
This portrait depicts Louise Riesener, daughter of artist Léon Riesener and close friend of Morisot. The artist depicted her subject in bust-length profile wearing a black jacket out of which peek the decorative ties of a white blouse. Morisot paid particular attention to the hat; a fashionable Parisian woman of the upper-middle class would have worn such an accessory whenever she went out in public. Morisot produced nearly 200 pastels during her career, the majority figure studies and portraits brought to varying degrees of finish.
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Document identity
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135405
label
Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat
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drawing
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135405
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drawing
title
Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat
description
This portrait depicts Louise Riesener, daughter of artist Léon Riesener and close friend of Morisot. The artist depicted her subject in bust-length profile wearing a black jacket out of which peek the decorative ties of a white blouse. Morisot paid particular attention to the hat; a fashionable Parisian woman of the upper-middle class would have worn such an accessory whenever she went out in public. Morisot produced nearly 200 pastels during her career, the majority figure studies and portraits brought to varying degrees of finish.
date
c. 1877–80
citation
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CC0
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CC0
language
en
wikidata
Q80028608
creators
1865
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Drawing
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1
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import
dimensionsRaw
Sheet: 55.5 x 46.8 cm (21 7/8 x 18 7/16 in.); Framed: 75.3 x 66.2 x 4.5 cm (29 5/8 x 26 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.)
cul
France, 19th century
accession
1958.41
Source extras
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pastel on pale blue laid paper
tombstone
Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat, c. 1877–80. Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895). Pastel on pale blue laid paper; sheet: 55.5 x 46.8 cm (21 7/8 x 18 7/16 in.); framed: 75.3 x 66.2 x 4.5 cm (29 5/8 x 26 1/16 x 1 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr., 1958.41
collection
DR - French
inscriptions
inscription
stamped, bottom right, in ink (faded): collection of Berthe Morisot [L.388a]; watermark, at top center: illegible cartouche; and at bottom center: PL BAS
didYouKnow
Morisot favored the (formerly) blue paper used here for pastels and used it for numerous works.
citations
citation
Bataille, M.-L. and G. Wildenstein. <em>Berthe Morisot: Catalogue des peintures, pastels, et aquarelles</em>. Paris: Beaux-Arts, 1961.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 56, no. 527; Reproduced: fig. 517
citation
Rey, Jean Dominique. <em>Berthe Morisot</em>. Norwalk, CT: Easton Press, 1982.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 75
citation
Burnham, Helen. “Fashion and the Representation of Modernity: Studies in the Late Work of Édouard Manet (1832–1883).” PhD diss., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2007.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 180
citation
Salsbury, Britany. <em>Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Lewes, UK, Cleveland, Ohio: GILES; Cleveland Museum of Art, 2023.
page_number
Mentioned and reproduced: p. 126-129, no. 21a
citation
Brown, Heather Lemonedes. "Manet & Morisot Pastels." In <em>Manet & Morisot</em>. Emily Beeny, Heather Lemonedes Brown, Anne Higonnet, Kimberly A. Jones, Nicole R. Myers, et al., 209-221. San Francisco, New Haven: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Yale University Press, 2025.
page_number
Mentioned: p. 209, 217-221; Reproduced: p. 137, no. 55
catalogueRaisonne
Bataille and Wildenstein 527
creditline
Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
galleryDonorText
The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery
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2026-05-29 06:55:07.492000
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135405
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Drawings
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DR - French
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pastel on pale blue laid paper
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female
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