Woman in a Garden

1882–83

Morisot painted figures like she was making an Impressionist landscape, using the same strokes to paint the people at the center of this piece as she used when slashing acid green and blued oranges across her canvas to capture the dappled sunlight in this garden.

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Artist

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)

Date

1882–83

Medium

Oil on canvas

Dimensions

123 × 94 cm (48 1/2 × 37 in.); Framed: 153.7 × 123.9 × 12.1 cm (60 1/2 × 48 3/4 × 4 3/4 in.)

Origin

France

Collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Credit

A Millennium Gift of Sara Lee Corporation