Rest
1888-1890
Berthe Morisot, a founding mother of the Impressionist movement, captures a fleeting moment of repose with scratchy, energetic lines that feel almost like a whisper. The young woman reclines heavily, her head propped on her hand in a pose of dreamy exhaustion, while her hair cascades down in loose, dark strokes. Notice the '18/25' in the bottom right corner—this reveals it as a drypoint print, where Morisot scratched the design directly into a copper plate to create those soft, fuzzy textures. It feels incredibly intimate, as if we’ve just tiptoed into the room and caught her in a private moment of rest.
- Technique
- Drypoint
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