Berthe Morisot, 1873 - Reading - fine art print

Background information on the more than 140 year-old artpiece

This over 140 years old painting Reading was painted by the artist Berthe Morisot. The original version of the masterpiece measures the size - Framed: 74,3 x 100,3 x 12,1 cm (29 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 4 3/4 in); Unframed: 46 x 71,8 cm (18 1/8 x 28 1/4 in). Oil on fabric was used by the painter as the medium of the artpiece. The masterpiece has the following text as inscrption: "signed lower right: [black:] B [in red:] erthe M[in black:] orisot Remnants of a signature lower left: B". Moveover, this artpiece is in the the The Cleveland Museum of Art's digital collection. With courtesy of: The Cleveland Museum of Art (license - public domain). : Gift of the Hanna Fund. Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with a ratio of 3 : 2, which implies that the length is 50% longer than the width. Berthe Morisot was a female painter from France, whose art style can be attributed primarily to Impressionism. The artist lived for 54 years - born in the year 1841 in Bourges, Centre region, France and passed away in the year 1895.

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• Metal (aluminium dibond print): Aluminium Dibond prints are prints on metal with an impressive effect of depth, which creates a contemporary impression throuch a non-reflective surface structure. The bright parts of the work of art shimmer with a silk gloss, however without any glare.
• Printed poster (canvas material): A poster is a printed canvas paper with a slightly rough finish on the surface, that resembles the original artwork. Please bear in mind, that depending on the size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin of around 2-6cm round about the painting to facilitate the framing with a custom frame.
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Original artwork description by the museum (© - The Cleveland Museum of Art - The Cleveland Museum of Art)

The fashionable woman seated in the foreground is the artist's sister, Edma. However, the painting is not a portrait. Morisot's principal concern was to render a figure in a natural, outdoor environment. Edma's white dress-the prime vehicle for Morisot's study of reflected light-is saturated with delicate lavender, blue, yellow, and rose tonalitites. Deftly executed with quick brushstrokes, the painting resounds with a feeling of freshness, vibrancy and delicate charm. "Every day I pray that the Good Lord will make me like a child," Morisot wrote, "That is to say, that He will make me see nature and render it the way a child would, without preconceptions." Morisot, the great granddaughter of the 18th-century French painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, selected this painting as one of her four works shown in the first Impressionist exhibition of 1874.