Seated Girl (Julie Manet)
Berthe Morisot
c. 1890
Medium
Colored pencils, over touches of graphite, on cream wove paper, laid down on cream wove paper
Dimensions
31.5 × 22.8 cm (12 7/16 × 9 in.)
Classification
colored pencil
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
9483
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...