The Mother and Sister of the Artist

The Mother and Sister of the Artist by Berthe Morisot

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

overall: 101 x 81.8 cm (39 3/4 x 32 3/16 in.) framed: 128.3 x 108.6 cm (50 1/2 x 42 3/4 in.)

Classification

Painting

Department

CF

Museum

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Credit

Chester Dale Collection

Accession Number

1963.10.186

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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