Walk in the Boulogne Wood
1889, printed 1921
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 15 x 11.9 cm (5 7/8 x 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 35.4 x 27.8 cm (13 15/16 x 10 15/16 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1953.6.103
Art Historical Context
**Walk in the Boulogne Wood** is a delicate drypoint print by Berthe Morisot, one of the pioneering female Impressionists, created in 1889 and printed posthumously in 1921. Measuring just 15 x 11.9 cm on its plate, this intimate work captures a serene stroll through the Bois de Boulogne, a fashionable Parisian park beloved by artists for its lush paths and dappled light. Morisot, known for her luminous paintings of everyday life—often featuring women in natural settings—here translates her signature loose, atmospheric style into printmaking, inviting viewers into a moment of quiet leisure amid...
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...