Swan and Duck, with Portraits of Julie
Medium
Drypoint on wove paper
Dimensions
sheet: 10 7/8 x 13 11/16 in. (27.7 x 34.7 cm) plate: 4 11/16 x 5 13/16 in. (11.9 x 14.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922
Accession Number
22.60.97
Art Historical Context
**Swan and Duck, with Portraits Julie** (1889) is a delicate drypoint print created collaboratively by Impressionist master Berthe Morisot and daughter, Julie Manet. Morisot, a trailblazing female artist in the Impressionist movement often captured intimate scenes of family life, gardens, and fleeting moments of light. This work, produced late in her career just six years before her death, tender portraits of young Julie alongside graceful swans and ducks, evoking a sense of serene domesticity and natural harmony. Drypoint, an intaglio printmaking technique, involves scratching directly onto ...
About the Artist
Berthe Morisot|Julie Manet · 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...