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Drawing of two young women drinking tea, only their faces are drawn with the most detail.

Two faces are drawn with more detail compared to sketched lines indicating arms and rest of the body. Both women have their hair up and heads turned to the right, and hold teacups in their right hands, up to neck level. The woman on the left is in profile, looking slightly down and right. The woman on the right is in three-quarter view, looking to the right and slightly up. There’s a sketch of another female head, horizontal and below the woman on the left, and a profile sketch of a head between the two tea drinkers. Signed lower left.

Identification and Creation

Object Number
1962.17
People
Berthe Morisot, French (1841 - 1895)
Title
Studies of a Woman; verso: profile of a girl's head, crossed out
Other Titles
Former Title: Two Women Drinking Tea
Classification
Drawings
Work Type
drawing
Date
19th century
Culture
French
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/296950

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Graphite on cream wove paper
Dimensions
22.2 x 36 cm (8 3/4 x 14 3/16 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Estate of the artist (Lugt 1826). Marian Phinney, bequest; to Fogg Art Museum, 1962

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Bequest of Marian H. Phinney
Accession Year
1962
Object Number
1962.17
Division
European and American Art
Contact
am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Ewa Lajer-Burcharth and Elizabeth M. Rudy, ed., Drawing: The Invention of a Modern Medium, exh. cat., Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge, 2017), pp. 169-170, repr. p. 170 as fig. 4

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