Two young women in white dresses with blue dots seated on a flowered sofa, one holding an open fan

The Sisters

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What you see

Two young women sit side by side, each filling one half of the picture. The one on the left, her black hair pinned up with a blue ornament, looks straight ahead with her hands in her lap. The one on the right, with brown hair, lowers her eyes and holds an open fan. Between their heads hangs a framed painted fan that echoes the one below.

The whites of the dresses blend with the pinks and grays of the upholstery and the pale wall. Both wear a black ribbon at the throat. Spot the reddish leaves of a plant at the left edge and for the dark ring on the hand of the woman on the left.

About Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot was a French painter and one of the founders of the Impressionist group: she took part in seven of its eight exhibitions, between 1874 and 1886. With quick, light brushstrokes she painted intimate scenes from the lives of the women around her, such as her mother, her sister Edma and her daughter Julie. She was married to Eugène Manet, brother of the painter Édouard Manet, and in 1896, a year after her death, the Durand-Ruel gallery held a large exhibition of her work in Paris.

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