Young Girl with a Cat, after a portrait of Julie Manet by Renoir
Medium
Drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
sheet: 14 x 10 11/16 in. (35.6 x 27.2 cm) plate: 5 7/8 x 4 11/16 in. (15 x 11.9 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Rogers Fund and Jacob H. Schiff Bequest, 1922
Accession Number
22.60.94
Tags
About the Artist
Berthe Morisot|Auguste Renoir|Julie Manet · 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...