The Drawing Lesson (Berthe Morisot and her Daughter)

1889, printed 1921

Berthe Morisot

Artist, French, 1841 - 1895

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 19 × 13.8 cm (7 1/2 × 5 7/16 in.)
    sheet: 35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)

  • Accession

    1953.6.98

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bailly-Herzberg 1979, no. 8

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(Henri M. Petiet, Paris, 1952)

Associated Names

Exhibition History

1971

  • An Impressionist View on Paper - from the Lessing Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery, Washington, D.C, Art Gallery at the University of Notre Dame, 1971, no. 30.

Bibliography

1979

  • Bailly-Herzberg. "Les estampes de Berthe Morisot." Gazette des Beaux-Arts, 6th ser. 93 (May/June 1979): 215-227, no. 8.

1994

  • Mathews, Nancy Mowll. Mary Cassatt: A Life. New York, 1994: 195, fig. 84.

Inscriptions

recto: below image at right in graphite in later hand: 18/25; verso: none

Markings

recto: below image, at left: B.M. [Berthe Morisot, Lugt 388a]; verso: National Gallery of Art

Watermarks

fragment cursive B M [Morel-Bercioux-Masure d'Arches]

Wikidata ID

Q65222057

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