DETAILS
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot
- Date
- 1877
- Medium
- pastel on pale blue laid paper
- Location
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Dimensions
- [object Object]
- Collection
- Drawings
- Culture
- France, 19th century
- Credit line
- Bequest of Leonard C. Hanna Jr.
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THE ARTIST
Berthe Morisot
1841–1895 · FranceBerthe Morisot, a pioneering Impressionist, captured intimate domestic scenes and landscapes, often featuring women and children, with a luminous touch.
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The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935)
1870 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Woman at Her Toilette
1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Woman in a Garden
1882 · Art Institute of Chicago
Young Woman Knitting
1883 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Forêt de Compiègne
1885 · Art Institute of Chicago
Young Girl with Hat
1891 · Art Institute of Chicago
The Duck
1888 · Cleveland Museum of Art
Young Woman at Rest
1889 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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Beyond Morisot and Impressionism: works from the same years.
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Cart with Red and White Ox
Vincent van Gogh · 1884 · Kröller-Müller Museum
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Paris Street; Rainy Day
Kawabata Gyokushō · 1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Chariot Race
Léon-Victor Dupré · 1876 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte — 1884
Okada Saburosuke · 1884 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Arrival of the Normandy Train, Gare Saint-Lazare
Claude Monet · 1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Beata Beatrix
Dante Gabriel Rossetti · 1877 · Birmingham Museums Trust
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Portrait after a Costume Ball (Portrait of Madame Dietz-Monnin)
Edgar Degas · 1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
The Laundress
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
The Man with the Dog
Édouard Manet · 1877 · Art Institute of Chicago
Same era · 1860s–1890s
Fan Mount: The Cabbage Gatherers
Camille Pissarro · 1878 · Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1860s–1890s
View of Marly-le-Roi from Coeur-Volant
Alfred Sisley · 1876 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Same era · 1860s–1890s
On a Balcony
Mary Cassatt · 1879 · Art Institute of Chicago




