1889
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
L'Oie is a 1889 by Berthe Morisot, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This print shows a simple goose standing sideways. Its lines look scratchy and soft at the same time. The artist used a drypoint needle on a metal plate, then inked it by hand. Morisot made only eight of these in 1878. She kept the bird’s shape loose, letting the plate’s rough edges show. It feels quick, like a sketch that turned into art. Check out Morisot, Berthe for more.
This drypoint by Berthe Morisot depicts a goose in the foreground with a second goose and a lake surrounded by trees in the background. Created around 1887–88, the print is one of eight in Morisot’s only known series of etchings, produced under encouragement from Mary Cassatt and Stéphane Mallarmé. The plates were later printed by Ambroise Vollard in 1921, long after the artist’s death. The work is part of a small body of prints made after her paintings, rather than as preparatory studies.
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Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (French: ; 14 January 1841 – 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
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