Goose
1889
Medium
Drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 14 x 10 15/16 in. (35.5 x 27.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922
Accession Number
22.60.92
Tags
Art Historical Context
Berthe Morisot's *Goose* (1889) captures the everyday grace of a single bird in a masterful drypoint print on wove paper. As a leading figure in the Impressionist movement, Morisot brought her signature lightness and spontaneity to printmaking late in her career. This intimate work, measuring 14 x 10 15/16 inches, showcases her ability to distill nature's essence with fluid lines, evoking the fleeting beauty she championed in paintings like her renowned garden scenes. Drypoint, an intaglio technique where the artist scratches directly into a metal plate, produces velvety, textured lines from ...
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...