Morisot's sister Edma watches over her sleeping daughter Blanche through a veil of white muslin. Shown at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874, it is tender but not sentimental, with a hint of pensive distance in the mother's look.
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Edma's arm and the curtain form a diagonal that links the two faces, while the gauze screens the baby from us.
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