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Compare the strokes in the woman’s dress with those in the surrounding leaves, then find the smaller figure behind her.
The painting was probably begun during the summer Morisot’s family spent in Bougival in 1882. The child in the background is likely based on her daughter Julie; the foreground sitter has not been identified. Rather than separating portrait from landscape, Morisot uses similarly active marks for both.
Oil on canvas · 123 × 94 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Impressionism
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- Museum title
- Woman in a Garden
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot
- Date
- 1882–83
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 123 × 94 cm (48 1/2 × 37 in.); Framed: 153.7 × 123.9 × 12.1 cm (60 1/2 × 48 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Credit line
- A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.