03 — ARTWORK
Repose - Portrait of Berthe Morisot
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, 148 x 113 cm
- TYPE
- Portrait
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 1224 × 1600 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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The two Morisot sisters, Edma and Berthe, were not only women of great character, they were also very talented painters. Manet met them in the Louvre, where they were copying. Both sisters were infatuated with the handsome painter. Berthe received from him not lessons but advice, and became his favourite model.
Manet returned several times to painting Berthe Morisot's languishing face and languishing attitudes. He clearly sought something more than the merely pictorial in this strange young woman, who was always dressed soberly in Manet's favourite colours, black and white. Her face inspired Manet, as witness the many rapidly brushed portraits without a trace of pentimentiChanges undertaken by an artist in the course of painting a picture. They are usually visible under the final version only with the help of X-rays, though they are sometimes revealed when the top layers of paint are worn away or become translucent.. In the Repose, he effortlessly conveys the ardent soul of the young woman.
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author = {Krén, Emil and Marx, Daniel},
title = {Repose - Portrait of Berthe Morisot by MANET, Edouard},
organization = {{Web Gallery of Art}},
date = {2026-09-13},
url = {https://beta.wga.hu/artists/manet-edouard-re54d09e075304b/repose---portrait-of-berthe-morisot-r51a5c1bebacce7},
urldate = {2026-09-13},
langid = {english}
}ACCESSED 2026-09-13. REPLACE THE AUTHOR FIELD WITH THE COMMENTARY AUTHOR WHERE ONE IS NAMED.
