Portrait of Mlle Quivoron
1860–1914
Medium
Etching, drypoint
Dimensions
Sheet: 15 3/8 × 10 7/16 in. (39 × 26.5 cm) Plate: 9 5/8 × 7 3/4 in. (24.5 × 19.7 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
The Elisha Whittelsey Collection, The Elisha Whittelsey Fund, 1963
Accession Number
63.625.204
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Marie Bracquemond · 1841–1916
Marie Anne Caroline Bracquemond (née Quivoron) was born on 1 December 1840 in Argenton-en-Landunvez, Brittany, and became one of the four notable women of French Impressionism, alongside Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, and Eva Gonzalès. She studied drawing as a child and, at age 17, began painting lessons under Auguste Vassor, a restorer who taught young women in Étampes. Her rapid progress led to a...