# At the Ball [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [MORISOT, Berthe]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 62 x 52 cm ## Commentary Berthe Morisot preferred light, tender colours, had a precise eye, and took an interest in the psychological state expressed by her models. A particularly fine use of colour distinguishes At the Ball, with its slightly asymmetrical structure and the young woman's attentive sideways look. Morisot artistic and human qualities amply account for the high regard in which she was held by fellow painters as different in character as Renoir and Degas, Monet and Puvis de Chavannes, as well as such writers as the poet Mallarmé. ## Related artworks - [Chasing Butterflies]() - [Hide and Seek]() - [Hortensia, or The Two Sisters]() - [In the Grass]() - [Julie Manet and Her Greyhound]() - [On a Bench in the Bois de Boulogne]() - [On the Balcony]() - [Pasie Sewing in the Garden]() - [Portrait of Madame Pontillon]() - [Summer Day \(Bois de Boulogne\)]() - [Summer]() - [The Artist's Mother and Sister \(Reading\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()