We look down onto a landscape where several laundry lines have been draped mostly with white sheets or cloth to dry in a flat, grassy yard in front of a rustic house and a distant town in this horizontal painting. The scene is created entirely with thick, visible brushstrokes that creates a sense of texture on the canvas’s surface and makes many details difficult to make out. The forms of at least three women wearing skirts hang laundry out along the lines, and a person wearing trousers tends to a flat piece of green ground near the lower left corner. A few pieces of white cloth have been…
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Hanging the Laundry out to Dry

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895)

1875

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 33 × 40.6 cm (13 × 16 in.) ; framed: 49.85 × 57.47 × 9.21 cm (19 5/8 × 22 5/8 × 3 5/8 in.)
Culture
French
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CF
Credit line
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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