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The Drawing Lesson (Berthe Morisot Drawing with Her Daughter)
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About this work
Encouraged by the Impressionist Mary Cassatt and the poet Stéphane Mallarmé, Morisot experimented with printmaking between 1887 and 1889. In this drypoint, a technique in which a sharp tool is used to scratch lines onto a copper plate, Morisot looks directly at the viewer—as if drawing our portrait—while 11-year-old Julie observes her mother at work.
Cleveland Museum of Art’s own descriptionCredit lineThe Drawing Lesson (Berthe Morisot Drawing with Her Daughter), 1889. Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895). Drypoint. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Dudley P. Allen Fund, 1925.1036
