Jeune fille cueillant des cerises

Details

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Jeune fille cueillant des cerises
stamped with signature 'Berthe Morisot' (Lugt 1826; lower right)
oil on canvas
335/8 x 21 in. (85.4 x 53.3 cm.)
Painted in 1891

Provenance

Monsieur et Madame Ernest Rouart, Paris.
Galerie Hopkins-Thomas, Paris.

Literature

M. Angoulvent, Berthe Morisot, Paris, no. 501.
M. L. Bataille & G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des Peintures, Pastels et Aquarelles, Paris, 1961, no. 277 (illustrated, fig. 269).
A. Clairet, D. Montalant & Y. Rouart, Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895, Montolivet, 1997, no. 278 (illustrated, p. 252).

Exhibited

Paris, Galerie Dru, 1928, no. 14bis.
Paris, Galerie Charpentier, 1951, no. 44 (illustrated).

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Jeune fille cueillant des cerises, painted during the summer of 1891 at Morisot's house at Mézy, belongs to a series of works that culminated in the celebrated Le cerisier (Clairet 281). In the present work, Morisot has concentrated on the figure of her daughter, Julie Manet, balancing on a ladder and reaching up into the branches of the cherry tree.

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