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Compare the carefully placed features and clasped hands with the loose blue strokes surrounding the child’s head and shoulders.
A boy from Mézy modeled for this pastel in 1890, when Morisot rented a house there with her husband. It is a study for a full-length painting of Saint John the Baptist holding a cross. Here the close view concentrates on the child; the cross belongs to the larger composition.
pastel on pale blue laid paper · 57.1 x 38.1 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Young Saint John
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
- Date
- 1890
- Medium
- pastel on pale blue laid paper
- Dimensions
- 57.1 x 38.1 cm (22 1/2 x 15 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of Mrs. Lewis B. Williams
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1841–1895
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.