The Artist's Sister at a Window
Berthe Morisot
1869
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 · 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...