The Sisters
Berthe Morisot
1869
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 52.1 × 81.3 cm (20 1/2 × 32 in.) framed: 69.85 × 99.7 × 8.89 cm (27 1/2 × 39 1/4 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs
Accession Number
1952.9.2
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...