Berthe Morisot - The Artist's Daughter Julie, with her Nanny [c.1884], originally uploaded by Gandalf's Gallery.
The work of Berthe Morisot (French, 1841-1895), like that of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, was generally either praised or reviled during her lifetime for being unfinished, indeterminate, and hurried. Morisot's Impressions, like Renoir's, forced the viewer to think less about the represented subjects than about the transformation of them on canvas. This composition is a gloriously painted drawing in which each line is a colour sensation. The sheer abandonment of her gesture and its increasingly non-representational role in her paintings put Morisot at the forefront of Impressionist experimentation.
[Oil on canvas, 23 x 28 inches]
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