Julie Manet Holding a Cat

1889, printed 1921

Berthe Morisot, after Auguste Renoir

Associated Names
Berthe Morisot

Artist, French, 1841 - 1895

Auguste Renoir

Artist After, French, 1841 - 1919

This is a print of a young girl sitting with a cat in her arms. The girl has short, dark hair, large eyes, and a slight smile. She is wearing a simple garment with a high collar and wide sleeves. The cat sits in her lap, resting its head on the girl's arm, which is curled around it. The cat's fur appears to be white with black spots, and it looks upwards towards the girl's face. The background is blank, beige paper.

Media Options

This object’s media is free and in the public domain. Read our full Open Access policy for images.
Not on view See artworks now on view

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    drypoint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 15 × 12 cm (5 7/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
    sheet: 35.6 × 28 cm (14 × 11 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1953.6.97

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Bailly-Herzberg 1979, no. 6

  • Series Title

    Cahier de huit pointes seches

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. 31.

Bibliography

1979

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

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

ARCHES

Wikidata ID

Q65222054

You may be interested in

Loading Results