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Knitting in the Garden
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WMET0196
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Young Woman Knitting
Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in., ca. 1883
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967 67.187.89
With refreshing disregard for prior stylistic conventions, Morisot glosses over facial features and dispenses with other descriptive details to present a snapshot glimpse of a modern-day subject. Her paring down to the essentials may be seen as a bold fashion statement of sorts: her sitter sports the latest style of dress and is shown knitting in a garden typical of the period, with a gravel path and flowering roses. The elegant chairs suffice to define the setting as a backyard, which had become a popular fixture of the middle-class household. Morisot probably painted the work in Bougival, where she spent the summers of 1881–84, perhaps enlisting her daughter’s nanny as a model.
This Met x Wendover Art Group design is a reproduction of an original work of art in The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection.
Young Woman Knitting
Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)
Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in., ca. 1883
Bequest of Miss Adelaide Milton de Groot (1876-1967), 1967 67.187.89
With refreshing disregard for prior stylistic conventions, Morisot glosses over facial features and dispenses with other descriptive details to present a snapshot glimpse of a modern-day subject. Her paring down to the essentials may be seen as a bold fashion statement of sorts: her sitter sports the latest style of dress and is shown knitting in a garden typical of the period, with a gravel path and flowering roses. The elegant chairs suffice to define the setting as a backyard, which had become a popular fixture of the middle-class household. Morisot probably painted the work in Bougival, where she spent the summers of 1881–84, perhaps enlisting her daughter’s nanny as a model.
