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{
    "localId": "135405",
    "label": "Mademoiselle Louise Riesener in a Hat",
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    "id": "135405",
    "contentType": "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": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.41",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q80028608"
    ],
    "creators": [
        1865
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Drawing"
    ],
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.41/1958.41_web.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "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"
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    "tec": "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 &amp; Morisot Pastels.\" In <em>Manet &amp; 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",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/1958.41",
    "creditline": "Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.",
    "galleryDonorText": "The Kelvin and Eleanor Smith Foundation Gallery",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 06:55:07.492000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1958.41/1958.41_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 135405,
    "dept": "Drawings",
    "coll": "DR - French",
    "med": "pastel on pale blue laid paper",
    "creatorTags": [
        "female"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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