Young Woman with a Straw Hat
Berthe Morisot
1884
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 55.5 × 46.7 cm (21 7/8 × 18 3/8 in.) framed: 71.76 × 62.23 × 8.89 cm (28 1/4 × 24 1/2 × 3 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CF
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Accession Number
1970.17.49
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...