Young Woman Knitting

Berthe Morisot, ca. 1883

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The garden’s gravel path, roses, and light chairs place this knitting scene in a contemporary domestic setting. Morisot probably painted it in Bougival, where she spent several summers. The sitter may have been her daughter’s nanny, but that identification remains uncertain; the rapidly indicated face does not resolve it.

Oil on canvas · 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (50.2 x 60 cm · The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Impressionism

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Museum title: Young Woman Knitting
Artist: Berthe Morisot (French, Bourges 1841–1895 Paris)
Date: ca. 1883
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (50.2 x 60 cm)
Credit line: Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist’s life 1841–1895

Impressionism c. 1860–1900

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Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.