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Young Girl with Hat
Berthe Morisot · 1892
- Artist
- Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
- Date
- 1892
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Size
- 55.9 × 47 cm (22 × 18 1/2 in.); Framed: 77.1 × 68.6 × 8.3 cm (30 3/8 × 27 × 3 1/4 in.)
- Made in
- France
- Style
- Impressionism
- Where to see it
- Art Institute of Chicago
Gift of Mrs. Frederic C. Bartlett · CC0 Public Domain · Art Institute of Chicago · image via Wikimedia Commons · see it at the museum ↗
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About Berthe Morisot
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
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