Berthe Morisot with a Muff (c. 1871–72): Art, History and Details

Berthe Morisot with a Muff (c. 1871–72) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This is one of two portraits Manet painted of Morisot dressed for winter in a heavy coat and feathered hat. (See Berthe Morisot with a Half Veil, also in this gallery.) Manet’s wide brushstrokes and crosshatchings, which describe areas of shadow, evoke the sketchy quality of Morisot’s own paintings, likely Manet’s nod to his subject’s identity as an artist.

Object facts

• Title: Berthe Morisot with a Muff
• Date: c. 1871–72
• Creator attribution: Édouard Manet (French, 1832–1883)
• Culture: France, 19th century
• Type: Painting
• Technique: oil on canvas
• Dimensions: Framed: 91.1 x 76.5 x 7.3 cm (35 7/8 x 30 1/8 x 2 7/8 in.); Unframed: 74 x 60 cm (29 1/8 x 23 5/8 in.)
• Collection: Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
• Department: Modern European Painting and Sculpture
• Accession number: 1958.34

A detail from the museum

Manet kept this portrait of Morisot throughout his life, and it was listed in the inventory of his studio after his death.

Collection credit

Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.

Further reading listed by the museum

• Duret, Théodore, and J. E. Crawford Flitch. Manet and the French Impressionists: Pissarro--Claude Monet--Sisley--Renoir--Berthe Morisot--Cézanne--Guillaumin. London: G. Richards; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1910.
• Meier-Graefe, Julius. Edouard Manet. München: Piper, 1912.

View the collection record

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