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Berthe Morisot
Embroidery (La Broderie) (1889)
oil on canvas
50.0 × 61.0 cm
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Barry Janes and Paul Cross, Paula Fox AO and Fox Family Foundation, Norman Bloom and Pauline Bloom, Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie and John Wylie AM, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family,The Bowden Marstan Foundation, Ken Harrison AM and Jill Harrison OAM, John and Rose Downer Foundation, Tim Fairfax AC and Gina Fairfax and donors to the 2021 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2021 NGV Annual Appeal, 2022
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Embroidery
(La Broderie)
(1889)
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
50.0 × 61.0 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Barry Janes and Paul Cross, Paula Fox AO and Fox Family Foundation, Norman Bloom and Pauline Bloom, Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie and John Wylie AM, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family,The Bowden Marstan Foundation, Ken Harrison AM and Jill Harrison OAM, John and Rose Downer Foundation, Tim Fairfax AC and Gina Fairfax and donors to the 2021 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2021 NGV Annual Appeal, 2022
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Berthe Morisot was a defining artist of the Impressionist movement. Along with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and others, Morisot shocked audiences at the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, where the artists’ contemporary subject matter and new techniques were viewed as a rejection of the established order. Morisot developed a distinctive, unfinished style characterised by loose, dynamic brushstrokes, as she strove to ‘capture a moment as it passes’. Her paintings were raw, full of movement and radical in their deliberate informality. This painting, a glimpse into a transient moment of friendship and girlhood, depicts Morisot’s favourite model, her daughter Julie Manet (left) and her step-niece Alice Gamby (right).
Artwork Details
Place/s of Execution
Paris, France
Inscription
inscribed in blue and beige paint l.l.: B Morisot
Accession Number
2022.1526
Department
International Painting