Study for "Young Girl in a Green Coat"
Berthe Morisot
ca. 1894
Medium
Pencil on polished buff laid paper
Dimensions
6 7/8 × 4 3/16 in. (17.5 × 10.6 cm) Framed: 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (54 × 41.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.674
Tags
Girls
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...