Girl with a Cat (Julie Manet)
Primary
Berthe Morisot
(Bourges, France, 1841–Paris, France, 1895)
NationalityAmerican, North America
Datecirca 1889
MediumEtching and drypoint
DimensionsSheet: 9 3/4 × 6 7/16 in. (24.8 × 16.4 cm)
Additional Dimension: 5 7/8 × 4 5/8 in. (15 × 11.8 cm)
Additional Dimension: 5 7/8 × 4 5/8 in. (15 × 11.8 cm)
Credit LineBlanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Isidore Simkowitz in memory of Amy Cecelia Simkowitz-Rogers, 1999.147
Keywords
Rights Statement
Collection AreaPrints and Drawings
Object number1999.147
On View
Not on viewThis drypoint shows Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet’s daughter, Julie. Morisot based her drypoint on Renoir’s painting Child with a Cat (1887, Musée d’Orsay). However, she eliminated the setting in the painting, focusing only on Julie and the cat.
Morisot produced only eight drypoints between 1888 and 1890, when she experimented with printmaking. Her interest in the medium may have come from her close friendship with Mary Cassatt, who was working with drypoint at this time.
Exhibitions
![Minotaure aveugle guidé par une fillette dans la nuit [Blind Minotaur Guided by a Young Girl in the Night], plate 97 from the Suite Vollard](/internal/media/dispatcher/13102/thumbnail)
