A Woman Seated at a Bench on the Avenue du Bois
Berthe Morisot
1885
Medium
Watercolor over traces of graphite
Dimensions
sheet: 7 7/8 x 11 in. (20 x 28 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1948
Accession Number
48.10.8
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
ParasolsWomen
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...