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Follow the pencil lines through the pale skirt, then compare those spare contours with the blue and green watercolor washes.
This watercolor shows Euphrasie, known as Pasie, the nanny to Morisot’s daughter Julie, sewing in the artist’s apartment. Morisot used the composition to prepare a later painting, where she added Julie and narrowed the view. The open areas of paper let us see an arrangement still being developed.
watercolor and graphite on paper · Sheet: 28.6 x 22.9 cm · Cleveland Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- Sewing near the Window
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
- Date
- about 1885
- Medium
- watercolor and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28.6 x 22.9 cm (11 1/4 x 9 in.)
- Credit line
- Sundry Art - Miscellaneous Fund
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Artist’s life 1841–1895
View in the AtlasGaller’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.