Woman in a Garden

Museum record 153798: Woman in a Garden by Berthe Morisot. A verified entry point for discovery.

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This work was probably begun in the summer of 1882, when Berthe Morisot and her family rented a house in Bougival, a picturesque village along the Seine River in northern France. Morisot spent the season there with her husband, Eugène Manet (artist Édouard Manet's brother), and their nearly four-year-old daughter, Julie. The child wearing a straw hat in the background of this painting is likely based on Julie, while the identity of the main figure is unknown. Morisot applied paint as if she were making a…