Portrait of Berthe Morisot
Medium
Drypoint; second state of two
Dimensions
Sheet: 18 7/8 × 13 1/4 in. (48 × 33.7 cm) Plate: 10 7/16 in. × 7 in. (26.5 × 17.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Rogers Fund, 1922
Accession Number
22.63.176
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Berthe Morisot|Marcellin Desboutin · 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...