This is an 1872 oil painting by Édouard Manet. The painting depicts fellow painter Berthe Morisot, dressed in black mourning dress, holding a barely visible bouquet of violets. Morisot exhibited her paintings in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris.She was part of the group of early impressionists. The painting is part of the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Manet also created an etching and two lithographs of the same composition.as a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.