The Goose
1889
Medium
Drypoint on cream laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 14.4 × 11.2 cm (5 11/16 × 4 7/16 in.); Plate: 15.1 × 11.9 cm (6 × 4 11/16 in.); Sheet: 35.4 × 27.7 cm (13 15/16 × 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
104335
Art Historical Context
Berthe Morisot's *The Goose* (1889) captures the artist's Impressionist sensibility in a delicate drypoint print, a medium she explored late in her career. one of the few women in the pioneering Impressionist movement—exhibiting with Monet, Renoir, and Degas since the 1870s—Morisot was renowned for her loose brushwork and luminous depictions of daily life, often featuring women and children. This intimate work, measuring just 14.4 × 11.2 cm, shifts to printmaking, showcasing her versatility just six years before her death in 1895. Drypoint, an intaglio technique, involves scratching directly ...
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...