The Cradle
Shown at the first 1874 exhibition: motherhood seen by a woman painter, not a male onlooker

- Author
- Berthe Morisot
- Style
- Impressionism — A fleeting moment of light and air, caught outdoors in separate strokes of pure colour
- Century
- 19th century
Made around the same time (±30 years)
- 1872 Impression, Sunrise — Claude Monet · Impressionism · Le Havre
- 1865–1869 War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy · Realism · Yasnaya Polyana
- 1889 The Starry Night — Vincent van Gogh · Post-Impressionism · Saint-Rémy-de-Provence
- 1893 The Scream — Edvard Munch · Expressionism · Kristiania (Oslo)
- 1870–1873 Barge Haulers on the Volga — Ilya Repin · Peredvizhniki (The Wanderers) · Saint Petersburg
- 1875 The Gross Clinic — Thomas Eakins · Realism · Philadelphia
- 1876 Bal du moulin de la Galette — Pierre-Auguste Renoir · Impressionism · Paris, Montmartre
- 1877 Paris Street; Rainy Day — Gustave Caillebotte · Impressionism · Paris, Place de Dublin