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Souvenir au Bord de l'Oise
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Berthe Morisot: "Souvenir Au Bord de l’Oise"
DETAILS:
Oil on canvas. Signed lower right.
33 by 46 cm
Painted 1863
Bibliographie:
Catalog Raisonée Clarait, Montalent, and Rouart, number 5. (Yet to be attributed by Rouart and
Montalent).
"Berthe Morisot Correspondence", edited by Dennis Rouart. Page 20.
"Berthe Morisot, the First lady of Impressionism", Margaret Shennan. Pages 52 and 53.
"Berthe Morisot, le secret de la femme en noir". Dominique Bona. Pages 55, 56 and 57.
"Berthe Morisot" Anne Higgonet.
Exhibited: Salon des Beaux Arts, 1864.
Provenance:
Moris Levy, 1926
Harold Levy, 1936
Ronald Davis (Davis and Levy Art), 1976
Considerable research has been done on the work and much documentation is available. Pigment
analysis was done by the Fogg Museum, and X rays by Giles Perault, Paris. The paint site has been
identified and confirmed as the Val de Hermeil, at le Chou, on the banks of the river Oise. This location
was chronicled by Higgonet, Denis Rouart, Shennan, Bona et al, as the site of her summer works in 1863.
She destroyed all the river scenes except this one which was exhibited at the Salon des Beaux Arts in
1864. Even to-day, the likeness of the work to the Val of Hermeil (after 142 years) is astonishing.
She painted this work at the age of 21 while under the tutelage of Corot.
To see details of the research click here or on Morisot_Research above.
BERTHE MORISOT 1841 - 1895