Lake with Rowboat
Berthe Morisot
1888, printed 1921
Medium
drypoint on laid paper
Dimensions
plate: 16 × 11.9 cm (6 5/16 × 4 11/16 in.) sheet: 35.5 × 28 cm (14 × 11 in.)
Classification
Department
CG-E
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Rosenwald Collection
Accession Number
1953.6.99
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...