Nude Seen from Behind
Berthe Morisot
1889
Medium
Drypoint on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.9 × 9.8 cm (5 1/2 × 3 7/8 in.); Plate: 13.9 × 9.8 cm (5 1/2 × 3 7/8 in.); Sheet: 27.2 × 20.9 cm (10 3/4 × 8 1/4 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
4828
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...