A young woman with pale peach skin and light brown hair sits in profile facing our left in an upholstered chair in this vertical painting. The chair and woman take up most of the composition so seems close to us. She wears a long-sleeved white dress that sweeps to the floor, with black ribbons around her neck and atop her shoulder-length ringlets. The dress has small ruffles at her throat and a deep flounce at the bottom. She gazes down at the partially open fan she holds on her lap. The fan is touched with spots of pumpkin orange, plum purple, and royal blue on a beige background. Loose,…
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The Artist's Sister at a Window

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895)

1869

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 54.8 x 46.3 cm (21 9/16 x 18 1/4 in.) ; framed: 74.93 × 67.31 × 10.8 cm (29 1/2 × 26 1/2 × 4 1/4 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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