Berthe Morisot · 1869-70
The Mother and Sister of the Artist
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Morisot's mother in black reading from a green book beside her pregnant sister Edma in a pale dress, on a floral sofa beneath a gilt frame. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Up to 16 × 19.7 in · portrait
Size
Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.
Format & finish
Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.
Scale next to a 5'10" person
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Materials & quality
›Canvas & inks
Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.
›Floater frame
Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.
›Posters
Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.
›Faithful to the source
Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.
The story of The Mother and Sister of the Artist
The painting, also known as The Reading, shows Berthe Morisot's mother Marie-Joséphine and her favourite sister Edma Pontillon. Edma, who had studied art alongside Berthe, married in 1869 and gave up painting; she was pregnant with her first child when this was painted. Morisot exhibited it at the Salon along with The Harbor at Lorient.
Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
All Berthe Morisot prints →Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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