I am updating Janine Bailly-Herzberg's 1979 catalogue of the drypoint prints of Berthe Morisot (Les Estampes de Berthe Morisot, Gazette de Beaux-Arts, May-June 1979, pp. 216-227). In addition to the cataloguing of the prints, she has three main areas of information.

1 - Mme Bailly did an excellent job of telling a well-documented history of how the plates came about, and I am not adding to that part of her work.

2 - She also did an excellent job of gathering information about where exemplars of various editions were held. I am now seeking to confirm and deepen that information and to update it if new prints have been added to collections. (My questions regarding your collection are intended to address this area.)

3 - She provided a chronology of the editions of the prints. Unfortunately the chronology of the posthumous editions, from 1904-1930, is presented entirely without documentation. In addition, there are clear errors in her editions-chronology, most significantly that she places the last un-cancelled edition in 1921, even though Théodore Duret had published cancelled plate prints in his 1909 German book, Die Impressionisten, meaning that the last un-cancelled edition must in fact have been no later than 1909 and not in 1921. Thus I am attempting to gather thorough objective documentation about the prints that are now held in various collections, so as to provide a documented and more accurate chronology of editions and to provide an objective method of determining to which edition a particular print most likely belongs. (My questions regarding the prints are intended to address this area.)

In addition to updating and correcting Mme Bailly's areas of information, I will also be adding an illustrated section on watermarks used in the editions and an illustrated section on how the plates degraded from the earlier to the later printings.