Study for "Young Girl in a Green Coat"
ca. 1894
Medium
Pencil on polished buff laid paper
Dimensions
6 7/8 × 4 3/16 in. (17.5 × 10.6 cm) Framed: 21 1/4 × 16 1/4 in. (54 × 41.3 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Robert Lehman Collection
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Robert Lehman Collection, 1975
Accession Number
1975.1.674
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Art Historical Context
Berthe Morisot, a pioneering female Impression, created this delicate pencil study around 1894, near the end of her career As one of the few women in the male-dominated Impressionist circle—alongside contemporaries like Edgar Degas and Claude Monet—Morisot in intimate scenes of women and children, capturing fleeting moments of everyday life with a fresh, luminous touch. This drawing for her painting *Young Girl in a Coat* reflects her fascination with youth and femininity, themes central to her oeuvre, and showcases her skill in translating observed reality into art during the vibrant cultural...
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...