Swans at Stagnant Water
Berthe Morisot
1889, printed 1921
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 12 × 14.9 cm (4 3/4 × 5 7/8 in.) sheet: 27.6 × 35.5 cm (10 7/8 × 14 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1953.6.101
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...