Young Girl with an Apron
Berthe Morisot
1891
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 65 x 54.6 cm (25 9/16 x 21 1/2 in.) framed: 87.6 x 74.3 x 7 cm (34 1/2 x 29 1/4 x 2 3/4 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Accession Number
2004.110.5
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...