Portrait of Julie Manet
1890
Medium
Transfer drawing in charcoal and red chalk, on light tan tracing paper, laid down on white wove paper, wrapped around millboard
Dimensions
53.8 × 43 cm (21 3/16 × 16 15/16 in.)
Classification
prints and drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
186320
Rights
Public Domain
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...