Nude
Berthe Morisot
1889, printed 1921
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 13.8 × 9.8 cm (5 7/16 × 3 7/8 in.) sheet: 35.5 × 27.5 cm (14 × 10 13/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1953.6.96
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...