Postcard Berthe Morisot - On the cliff, 1873

IC013327
BERTHE MORISOT (1841-1895)
On the cliff (detail), 1873.
Watercolor and gouache highlights on pencil lines. H. 18.0 ; L. 23.0 cm. Gift of Étienne Moreau-Nélaton, 1907. Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
© Photo Rmn-Grand Palais (Musée d'Orsay) / T. Querrec
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Made in France
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Characteristics

Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Material of the original work
Aquarelle et rehauts gouache
Theme
Made in France
Art movement
Impressionism
Engraving date
1873
Artist
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Material
Coated paper
Reference
IC013327
EAN
3336729256778
Model dimensions
15cm
Package Dimensions
15cm
Editor
© Photo RMN-Grand Palais
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée d'Orsay

The work and its artist

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

A major figure in Impressionism, Berthe Morisot remains less well known today than his friends Monet, Degas and Renoir. Yet she was immediately recognized as one of the group's most innovative artists. Painting after a model allows Berthe Morisot to explore several themes of modern life, such as the intimacy of bourgeois life, the taste for resorts and gardens, the importance of fashion, women's domestic work, while blurring the boundaries between interior/exterior, private/public, finished/unfinished. For her, painting must strive to "fix something of what is going on". Modern subjects and speed of execution therefore have to do with the temporality of representation, and the artist is tirelessly confronted with the ephemeral and the passage of time. Thus his latest works, characterized by a new expressiveness and musicality, invite us to a melancholic mediation on these relationships between art and life.
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