Peonies
Berthe Morisot
c. 1869
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 40.8 x 33 cm (16 1/16 x 13 in.) framed: 46.7 x 38.4 x 2.5 cm (18 3/8 x 15 1/8 x 1 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
1994.59.10
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...