#motherhood

Art the community tagged “motherhood” — see what people make of it.

Erisava Staff Jul 6

The Cradle by Berthe Morisot, 1872

The Cradle

Musée d'Orsay · wikidata.org

Public domain

The woman here is apparently Morisot's own sister, watching her new baby — this was one of the pieces Morisot showed at the very first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, and from what I can find it barely sold at the time.