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In this painting, a woman and a child are seated on the grass in a woodland setting, facing the left. The woman is shown from the side, her legs stretched out in front of her towards the bottom left corner of the painting. She has pale skin and red hair tied back under a white and black hat with a long while veil behind it. The child, seated beside her, is shown from the front, with pale skin and light-yellow hair peeking out from under a wide-brimmed white hat. The child has a round face and bright blue eyes. The woman is dressed in a long, white dress with pale gray stripes, and the child appears to be in a matching white outfit. The background is full of green foliage and gray tree trunks.
National Gallery of Art · Drawing
At the Edge of the Forest (Edma and Jeanne)
Berthe Morisot
- Date
- c. 1872
- Medium
- watercolor and graphite on paper
- Dimensions
- sheet: 19.5 × 22.2 cm (7 11/16 × 8 3/4 in.)
- Classification
- Drawing
- Accession number
- 2014.18.33
- Credit line
- Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon
- Time span
- 1851 to 1875
- Department
- CG-E
Subjects and terms
- Mother and Child
- Hat
- Dress
- Sister
Provenance
Paul Mellon [1907-1999], Upperville, Virginia; bequest 1999 to NGA, with life interest to his wife, Rachel Lambert Mellon [1910-2014]; gift to National Gallery of Art, 2014.
Inscription
lower right in black watercolor: Berthe Morisot
NGA object ID 164943. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.