A young woman with pale peach skin and light brown hair sits in profile facing our left in an upholstered chair in this vertical painting. The chair and woman take up most of the composition so seems close to us.

The Artist's Sister at a Window

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895)

Date
1869
Medium
oil on canvas
Size
21½ × 18¼ in (54.8 × 46.3 cm)
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, accession 1970.17.47. See the museum’s record
Credit
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection

Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0).

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Print
16 × 20 in, filling the paper (trims 5.3 % of the picture)
Center
58 in (147 cm) above the stair line
The Artist's Sister at a Window: a 16 × 20 in print hung beside a staircase, drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall
16 × 20 in portrait print (41 × 51 cm), centered 58 in above the stair line. Drawn to scale on a 12 × 8 ft wall.

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Public domain image courtesy of the National Gallery of Art (Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.