Hanging the Laundry out to Dry
Berthe Morisot
1875
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 33 x 40.6 cm (13 x 16 in.) framed: 49.85 × 57.47 × 7.62 cm (19 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 3 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1985.64.28
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...