The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of May 14, 2025

Young Saint John
1890
(French, 1841–1895)
57.1 x 38.1 cm (22 1/2 x 15 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Lewis B. Williams 1975.83
Catalogue raisonné: Bataille and Wildenstein 558; Angoulvent 410
Location: not on view
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This pastel's first owner was Berthe Morisot's daughter, Julie Manet, and her husband Ernest Rouart.Description
In the spring of 1890 Berthe Morisot and her husband, Eugène Manet, rented a house with a garden overlooking the Seine River in the rural French town of Mézy. Morisot worked in the attic studio while the pair was there. A young boy from the village served as the model for this pastel, one of several studies for a full-length painting of Saint John the Baptist with his cross. In this drawing, Morisot developed the loose and sketchy marks that would characterize her final canvas.- after 1896Mr. [1874–1942] and Mrs. [1878–1966] Ernest Rouart, Paris1896(Durand-Ruel, Paris)1896-by 1929Private collectionby 1929-1975Mr. [1880–1966] and Mrs. [1879–1980] Lewis B. Williams, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH1975-Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Berthe Morisot, exposition de son œuvre. Exh. cat. Paris: Durand-Ruel, 1896. Mentioned: p. 30, no. 184“Studio-Talk,” The Studio 42 (1908): 318-20. Reproduced: p. 318Fourreau, Armand. Berthe Morisot. Paris: F. Rieder, 1925. Mentioned: p. 25; Reproduced: pl. 27Angoulvent, Monique. Berthe Morisot. Paris: Albert Morancé, 1933. Mentioned: p. 138, no. 410Bataille, M.-L. and G. Wildenstein. Berthe Morisot: Catalogue des peintures, pastels, et aquarelles. Paris: Beaux-Arts, 1961. Mentioned and reproduced: p. 58, no. 558Stuckey, Charles F. “Berthe Morisot.” In Charles F. Stuckey, Willam P. Scott, and Suzanne G. Lindsay. Berthe Morisot: Impressionist. Exh. cat. South Hadley, MA: Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, 1987. Mentioned: p. 145Shennan, Margaret. Berthe Morisot: First Lady of Impressionism. Phoenix Mill, UK: Sutton, 1996. Mentioned: p. 15Salsbury, Britany. “Nineteenth-Century French Drawings: Acquiring the now-on-view Cleveland collection.” Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine vol. 63, no. 1 (2023): 8-9. Reproduced and Mentioned: P. 9. archive.org
- Nineteenth-Century French Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 20-June 11, 2023).Pure Color: Pastels from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 19, 2016-March 19, 2017).Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 7, 1993-January 2, 1994).Berthe Morisot, exposition de son œuvre. Durand-Ruel, Paris (March 5–21, 1896).French Art Since Eighteen Hundred. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 8-December 8, 1929).
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