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Jeune Fille Accoude (Young Girl Leaning)

Berthe Morisot , 1889 /1909
  • Berthe Morisot
  • Drypoint
  • Original drypoint etching on light cream wove paper
  • 7 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. | Image: 3 x 4.5 in. | Framed: 11 x 12 1/2 in.
  • Numbered 272/1000 from the total edition of 1000.
  • Eleonore Austerer Gallery, San Francisco; Kimble Collection, Utah, 2000
  • Yes

Published in Die Impressionisten, text by Theodore Duret; Bruno Cassirer, publisher, Berlin 1909.

The first state was printed by Porcaboeuf and issued by Rouartin in 1904 in an edition of about 25. The plate was then cancelled by piercing the two circles in the edges of the plate, as seen in this impression. The “cancelled” print was republished in 1910 by Duret and later by Vollard.

The subject of this drypoint was model Jeanne-Marie Fourmanoir. 

Morisot was unable to attend formal art school because she was a woman, but she was able to take private art lessons. It wasn’t until her lessons with Camille Corot, however, that she flourished. She would become the rare exception to the rule of male-only participants in leading salons.  Her work stood alongside her peers at the seminal 1873 exhibition, “Société Anonyme des Artistes-Peintures, Sculpteurs, et Graveurs,” and received acclaim from critics.

Despite this, Morisot was relegated for the most part to the shadows of art history until recently.

Morisot’s work often depicted women in their private realms, which were often closed-off and veiled in Victorian era Europe, offering us a glimpse into life in that era.

Authenticated by Eleonore Austerer Gallery

Loc: G.H. pp154a

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