Mme Ernest Rouart

French, 1879 - 1966

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Berthe Morisot, Landscape, colored pencils, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection, 1970.17.162

Landscape

Berthe Morisot · · colored pencils ·  Accession ID  1970.17.162

Shown from the knees up, a young girl with pale skin, wearing a coral-peach dress, sits facing and looking at us in this loosely painted, vertical portrait. Her knees are angled slightly to our left, and her hands rest in her lap. She has a round face and smooth, lightly flushed cheeks. She has brown eyes under arched brows, a delicate, snub nose, and her rose-pink lips are closed. Her hair, which is painted with broad strokes of caramel brown and moss green, is parted on one side and pulled smoothly back, presumably tied behind her head. Tendrils fall over her shoulders. Her dress is gathered around her neck and tied with a bow at the back. The loose sleeves fall to just below her elbows, and the dress is belted around the waist. A curving swipe of canary-yellow paint could be a buckle at the front. The fabric of the dress is painted with long, visible strokes of shell and rose pink, butter yellow, and ivory white, and a few touches of sage green and periwinkle blue for shadows. She wears a ring on the middle finger of her right hand. The space around her is loosely painted with strokes of electric and cobalt blue, with unpainted canvas visible at some of the edges. To our left, over the girl's shoulder, a wooden bird cage holds an emerald-green parakeet. The bird is streaked with royal blue along its back, and the area around its hooked beak is apple red. The cage has a mint-green bow and ribbon along the top. The artist signed the painting in green on the lower right corner: “Berthe Morisot.”
Berthe Morisot, The Artist's Daughter with a Parakeet, 1890, oil on canvas, Chester Dale Collection, 1963.10.50

The Artist's Daughter with a Parakeet

Berthe Morisot · 1890 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1963.10.50

Edgar Degas, Spanish Dancers and Musicians, 1868/1869, watercolor and pen and black ink on wove paper, Woodner Collection, 2000.25.3

Spanish Dancers and Musicians

Edgar Degas · 1868/1869 · watercolor and pen and black ink on wove paper ·  Accession ID  2000.25.3

Bibliography

1919

  • Blanche, Jacques-Emile. "Notes sur la peinture moderne (a propos de la collection Rouart) in_Propos de Peintre_. 3 vols. Paris, 1919-1928:II De David à Degas: 245+

1997

  • Grammont, Claudine. "Le legs Rouart: reunion de famille." Beaus-Arts Magazine 161 (October 1997): 100-105.

  • Lefranc, Celine. "Les tribulations d'une collection." Connaissance des Art 544 (November 1997): 110-115.