Young Woman at Rest
Berthe Morisot
1889
Medium
Drypoint in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 7.8 × 11.6 cm (3 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.); Plate: 8.1 × 12 cm (3 1/4 × 4 3/4 in.); Sheet: 19.9 × 22.8 cm (7 7/8 × 9 in.)
Classification
drypoint
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
80612
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...