The Drawing Lesson (Berthe Morisot and her Daughter)
Berthe Morisot
1889, printed 1921
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 19 × 13.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 7/16 in.) sheet: 35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1953.6.98
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...