Berthe Morisot - Paula Gobillard in Her Ball Gown 1887
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Paula Gobillard in Her Ball Gown 1887
73x60cm oil/canvas
Private collection
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The sitter depicted here is Morisot's niece Paule Gobillard (1867-1946), who was a frequent model for many of the Impressionist painters and would later become an artist herself. Gobillard's mother was the sister of the artist, and her likeness appears in as many as ten of Morisot's paintings. She would later feature in photographs taken by Edgar Degas and in paintings by Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Odilon Redon, but it was her aunt Berthe who provided some of the most biographically-infused depictions of her,including the present work and another canvas of Paule at her easel.