Berthe Morisot in a portrait by Édouard Manet, 1872

Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was an Impressionist painter. She was the grand niece of the painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and she became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet. Like her Impressionist contemporaries Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot often painted women, children, and domestic scenes. Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (1872) The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Edouard Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (1872) The two-dimensional work of art depicted in this image is in the public domain in the United States and in those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar). ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1841 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... 1895 (MDCCCXCV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar). ... See also Impressionist (entertainment): A girl with a watering can by Renoir, 1876 Impressionism was a 19th century art movement, which began as a private association of Paris-based artists who exhibited publicly in 1874. ... The Bathers, 1765 Inspiration, 1769 The Reader, c. ... Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar). ... Pierre-Auguste Renoir. ... The Childs Bath (The Bath). ...

Life

Morisot was born in Bourges, Cher, France into a successful bourgeois family. Both she and her sister Edma Morisot chose to become painters. Once Berthe Morisot settled on pursuing art, her family did not impede her career. Bourges is a town and commune in central France. ... Cher is a département in the center of France. ...

She was born into a family that had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of colour and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters. By age twenty, she had met and befriended the important landscape painter of the Barbizon School, Camille Corot. North side of the Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo - carriage courtyard: all the stucco details sparkled with gold until 1773, when Catherine II had gilding replaced with olive drab paint. ... Ancien Régime, a French term meaning Former Regime, but rendered in English as Old Rule, Old Order, or simply Old Regime, refers primarily to the aristocratic social and political system established in France under the Valois and Bourbon dynasties. ... Jean-Honoré Fragonard (April 5, 1732 – August 22, 1806) was a French painter. ... The Gleaners. ... Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (portrait by Nadar) Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (July 26, 1796 – February 22, French landscape painter. ...

The older artist instructed Berthe and her sister in painting and introduced them to other artists and teachers. Under Corot's influence, Morisot took up the plein air method of working. As art students Berthe and Edma worked closely together. Their artistic camaraderie ended when Edma married, had children, and no longer had time to paint so intensely as Berthe. Letters between them show a loving and cordial relationship, underscored by Berthe's regret at the distance between them and about Edma's withdrawal from painting. Edma wholeheartedly supported Berthe's continued work and the families of the two sisters always remained close. Plein air is French for outdoors or outside, open air and is a term applied to painting outside, transfer to a picture of all riches of changes of the color caused by influence of a sunlight and the surrounding atmosphere. ...

Morisot's first appearance in the Salon de Paris came at the age of twenty-three in 1864, with the acceptance of two landscape paintings. She continued to show regularly in the Salon until 1874, the year of the first impressionist exhibition. Honoré Daumier satirized the bourgeoises scandalized by the Salons Venuses, 1864 The Paris Salon (French: Salon de Paris) is the official art exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris, France. ... 1864 (MDCCCLXIV) was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a leap year starting on Sunday of the 12-day-slower Julian calendar. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... 1874 (MDCCCLXXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...

L'Enfant au Tablier Rouge, a sketch by Berthe Morisot

Meanwhile, in 1868 Morisot became acquainted with Édouard Manet. He took a special interest in Morisot, as is evident from his warm portrayal of her in several paintings. One includes a striking portrait study of Morisot in a black veil, while in mourning for her father's death. Correspondence between them bespeaks affection. He once gave her an easel as a Christmas present. He also interfered in one of her Salon submissions when he was engaged to transport it. Manet mistook one of Morisot's simple self-criticisms, as an invitation to add his corrections, which he did, much to Morisot's dismay. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Édouard Manet (portrait by Nadar). ...

Although traditionally Manet has been related as the master and Morisot as the follower, there is evidence that their relationship was a reciprocating one. Morisot had developed her own distinctive artistic style. Records of paintings show Manet's approval and appreciation of certain stylistic and compositional decisions that Morisot originated. He incorporated some of these characteristics into his own work.

It was Morisot who convinced Manet to attempt plein air painting,^{[citation needed]} which she had been practicing since having been introduced to it by Corot. She also drew Manet into the circle of painters who soon became known as, the Impressionists. In 1874, Morisot married Manet's brother, Eugene, and they had one daughter, Julie. Plein air is French for outdoors or outside, open air and is a term applied to painting outside, transfer to a picture of all riches of changes of the color caused by influence of a sunlight and the surrounding atmosphere. ...

As a doctrinaire impressionist as well as a member of the haute bourgeoisie, Morisot painted what she experienced on a daily basis. Her works include not only landscapes, portraits, garden settings, and boating scenes, but also subjects portraying the comfort and intimacy of family and domestic life.

Berthe Morisot died on March 2, 1895 in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Passy.
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See also

• Women artists

Professor and art historian Linda Nochlin began her wonderfully provacative 1971 Artnews article with the question Why are there no great women artists? This question was in essence a challenge to traditional art history. ...

External links

• Berthe Morisot at the WebMuseum