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Look between the small marks on the white dress and the flowers in the grass, then settle on the blue book.
Morisot’s sister Edma posed for this outdoor scene. Technical examination revealed that Morisot originally painted her looking toward the viewer, then redirected her eyes toward the book. That small revision changes our relationship to the figure: we observe someone absorbed in her own activity.
oil on canvas · Framed: 74.3 x 100.3 x 12.1 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art · Impressionism
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Details and source
- Museum title
- Reading
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
- Date
- 1873
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- Framed: 74.3 x 100.3 x 12.1 cm (29 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 46 x 71.8 cm (18 1/8 x 28 1/4 in.)
- Credit line
- Gift of the Hanna Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.