Portrait of Julie Manet
Berthe Morisot
1890
Medium
Transfer drawing in charcoal and red chalk, on light tan tracing paper, laid down on white wove paper, wrapped around millboard
Dimensions
53.8 × 43 cm (21 3/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
186320
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...