Girl in a Boat with Geese
Berthe Morisot
c. 1889
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 65.4 x 54.6 cm (25 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.) framed: 84 x 72.7 x 4.1 cm (33 1/16 x 28 5/8 x 1 5/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.50
About the Artist
Berthe Morisot · 1841–1895
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was a founding member of the Impressionist movement and one of the most significant women artists of the 19th century. Born into an affluent bourgeois family in Bourges, France—her mother was a great-niece of the Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard—Morisot received serious artistic training despite the social constraints facing women of her class. Under the guidance of...