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Literature: M. L. Bataille & G. Wildenstein, Berthe Morisot catalogue des peintures, pastels et acquarelles, Paris, 1969, nos.547a and 547b (illustrated p.57).

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Berthe Morisot was one of the finest painters to contribute to the circle known as the Impressionists. After showing her work along side that of artists like Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas and Claude Monet in the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, Morisot went on to cement her position within the group and maintained strong relationships with Jean-Baptiste Corot and Édouard Manet, among others. As studies for a never-realised painting of the Carnaval de Nice, these pastel studies exemplify Morisot's love of colour and her power to observe the expressive nuances of physical mannerisms. Family legend had it that the Morisots were descended from Fragonard, the master of the Ancien Régime, and one can certainly see the influence of the Rococo painter's soft pinks and blues in these intimate sketches of the carnival character Domino.