Exquisite vintage handpainted facsimile of Manet's Berthe Moriset with Violets on board
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Beautifully rendered facsimile of Manet's amazing portrait of artist Berthe Moriset. If you can't own the original of this masterpiece, I assure you, this is the next best thing. It's mesmerizing to behold and you will not be disappointed.
Some background about the subject of the original masterpiece by Manet:
Apart from Le Balcon which is not a portrait in the narrow sense, Manet painted Berthe Morisot ten times. Each canvas is quite different in mood, presentation and setting. Neither artist nor sitter wrote of these portraits at the time; and Morisot, in her family letters, referred only once to posing for Manet after all the excitement that had surrounded Le Balcon. Writing to her sister Edma in the summer of 1871, she told of a meeting at one of the Manet's Thursday soirees:
"Once more he thinks me not too unattractive, and wants to take me back as his model. Out of sheer boredom, I shall end by proposing this very thing myself." But evidently no sittings took place in 1871.The eventual result of this renewed invitation to pose was Berthe Morisot au bouquet de violettes, the only portrait actually dated by Manet to the year 1872. Although initially it did not belong to her, but to Theodore Duret, Morisot later bought it at Duret's sale in 1894, a year before her death.
The most brilliant evocation of this supreme masterpiece was written by Paul Valbry, Berthe's nephew by marriage, who clearly knew it intimately. It was used as his peroration in the preface he contributed to the catalogue of the Manet centenary exhibition of 1932.
"I place nothing in Manet's oeuvre higher than a certain portrait of Berthe Morisot, dated 1872."
Dimensions: 20 x 24
Signed Jenny on back of canvas
Oil on canvas-covered board in Black frame with gold inside border
Some background about the subject of the original masterpiece by Manet:
Apart from Le Balcon which is not a portrait in the narrow sense, Manet painted Berthe Morisot ten times. Each canvas is quite different in mood, presentation and setting. Neither artist nor sitter wrote of these portraits at the time; and Morisot, in her family letters, referred only once to posing for Manet after all the excitement that had surrounded Le Balcon. Writing to her sister Edma in the summer of 1871, she told of a meeting at one of the Manet's Thursday soirees:
"Once more he thinks me not too unattractive, and wants to take me back as his model. Out of sheer boredom, I shall end by proposing this very thing myself." But evidently no sittings took place in 1871.The eventual result of this renewed invitation to pose was Berthe Morisot au bouquet de violettes, the only portrait actually dated by Manet to the year 1872. Although initially it did not belong to her, but to Theodore Duret, Morisot later bought it at Duret's sale in 1894, a year before her death.
The most brilliant evocation of this supreme masterpiece was written by Paul Valbry, Berthe's nephew by marriage, who clearly knew it intimately. It was used as his peroration in the preface he contributed to the catalogue of the Manet centenary exhibition of 1932.
"I place nothing in Manet's oeuvre higher than a certain portrait of Berthe Morisot, dated 1872."
Dimensions: 20 x 24
Signed Jenny on back of canvas
Oil on canvas-covered board in Black frame with gold inside border
