The Artist's Sister at a Window

The Artist's Sister at a Window by Berthe Morisot

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 54.8 x 46.3 cm (21 9/16 x 18 1/4 in.) framed: 74.93 × 67.31 × 10.8 cm (29 1/2 × 26 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Accession Number

1970.17.47

About the Artist

Berthe Morisot · 18411895

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...

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