The Cradle, 1872

Berthe Morisot

Oil on canvas · 56 x 46.5 cm

A mother watches over a gauze-veiled infant in soft, quick strokes.

Morisot paints her sister watching over a sleeping baby, a gauzy veil separating mother and child. One of the first great Impressionist images of motherhood, it is tender and quietly modern — intimate domestic life seen through a woman's eyes.

Musée d'Orsay

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