Young Girl with Hat
Berthe Morisot
1892
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
55.9 × 47 cm (22 × 18 1/2 in.); Framed: 77.1 × 68.6 × 8.3 cm (30 3/8 × 27 × 3 1/4 in.)
Classification
painting
Department
Painting and Sculpture of Europe
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
20556
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...