1872, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Among the eleven portraits in oil that Manet made of Morisot, this work is distinctive for the arresting gaze of the sitter, who is framed in a virtuosic composition of blacks. The striking beribboned hat and scarf signal her status as a fashionable Parisian, and the bouquet of violets clutched to her chest, a token of affection, hints at a flirtation. The journalist and critic Théodore Duret originally acquired the painting. Morisot purchased it when it came up for sale in 1894, the year before she died.
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1872, Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) (special exhibition)
From the museum label: Among the eleven portraits in oil that Manet made of Morisot, this work is distinctive for the arresting gaze of the sitter, who is framed in a virtuosic composition of blacks. The striking beribboned hat and scarf signal her status as a fashionable Parisian, and the bouquet of violets clutched to her chest, a token of affection, hints at a flirtation. The journalist and critic Théodore Duret originally acquired the painting. Morisot purchased it when it came up for sale in 1894, the year before she died.
Link to other Manet paintings