Description & Technical information
Louise Riesener was the daughter of the painter Louis-Antoine-Léon Riesener, himself the grandson of the famous cabinetmaker of Kings Louis XV and Louis XVI and also a cousin of the artist Eugene Delacroix. Other portraits of Louise Riesener by Morisot are included in the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, the Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Date: 1881
Period: 1850-1900, 19th century
Origin: France
Medium: Oil on canvas
Signature: Estate Stamp (lower right): Berthe Morisot
Dimensions: 53 x 60 cm (20⁷/₈ x 23⁵/₈ inches)
Provenance: Gimpel Fils, Londres
Viola Laske, Londres
James Goodman Gallery, New York
Ruth O’Hara Fine Art, New York
Galerie Benezit, Paris
Hammer Galleries, New York
Collection privée, Canada
Literature: Art News, Avril 1954, p. 130, reproduit
Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant et Yves Rouart, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue Raisoné de l'Oeuvre Peint, London, 1957, réédité en 1997, p. 163, no. 101, illustré
M.-L. Bataille et G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot, Catalogue des Peintures, Pastels et Aquarelles, Les Beaux-Arts, Paris, 1961, fig. 136, illustré
Exhibitions: Londres, Gimpel Fils, Collector's Choice, Printemps 1955, no. 25
New York, Gimpel Gallery, Mars, 1969, no. 66
New York, Hammer Galleries, The Gallery Collection: 19th and 20th Century American and European Paintings, Hiver 1987, illustré
New York, Hammer Galleries, Artist, Model and Muse: Women in 19th and 20th Century, 3 Mars – 30 Avril 2009, illustré dans la brochure
Categories: Paintings, Drawings & Prints
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