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Embroidery
(La Broderie)
(1889)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Measurements
- (50.0 × 61.0 cm)
- Place/s of Execution
- Paris, France
- Accession Number
- 2022.1526
- Department
- International Painting
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Barry Janes and Paul Cross, Paula Fox AO and Fox Family Foundation, Norman Bloom and Pauline Bloom, Myriam Boisbouvier-Wylie and John Wylie AM, Krystyna Campbell-Pretty AM and Family,The Bowden Marstan Foundation, Ken Harrison AM and Jill Harrison OAM, John and Rose Downer Foundation, Tim Fairfax AC and Gina Fairfax and donors to the 2021 NGV Foundation Annual Dinner and 2021 NGV Annual Appeal, 2022 - Gallery location
- Special Exhibitions Gallery
Ground Level, NGV International - About this work
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Berthe Morisot was a defining artist of the Impressionist movement. Along with Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and others, Morisot shocked audiences at the first Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, where the artists’ contemporary subject matter and new techniques were viewed as a rejection of the established order. Morisot developed a distinctive, unfinished style characterised by loose, dynamic brushstrokes, as she strove to ‘capture a moment as it passes’. Her paintings were raw, full of movement and radical in their deliberate informality. This painting, a glimpse into a transient moment of friendship and girlhood, depicts Morisot’s favourite model, her daughter Julie Manet (left) and her step-niece Alice Gamby (right).