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Your galleryThe Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935)
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Compare the pale pink dress and silvery sofa with the dark background, then follow the relaxed angle of the sitter’s arm.
This is one of Morisot’s few surviving early paintings. Jacques-Émile Blanche recalled watching her paint Marguerite Carré at the sitter’s family home, but the portrait took several sessions and repeated changes. Its light colors need not imply that it was made in a single sitting.
Oil on canvas · 21 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (54.6 x 67.3 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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- Museum title
- The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935)
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot (French, Bourges 1841–1895 Paris)
- Date
- ca. 1870
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 21 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (54.6 x 67.3 cm)
- Credit line
- The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- The Metropolitan 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.