The Duck
Berthe Morisot
1889
Medium
Drypoint in black on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 13.9 × 10 cm (5 1/2 × 3 15/16 in.); Plate: 13.9 × 10 cm (5 1/2 × 3 15/16 in.); Sheet: 35.8 × 27.7 cm (14 1/8 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104334
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...