Berthe Morisot

French painter (1841-1895)

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  • Fame59.4
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Lived 1841–1895, aged 54France
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    1841–1895
    Aged 54
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She showed at the Paris Salon six times before walking away to exhibit with the rejects — Monet, Renoir, Degas — and became the only woman to show at nearly every Impressionist exhibition over the next twelve years.

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Berthe Morisot first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1864, listed as a student of Joseph Guichard and Achille-Francois Oudinot, and returned five more times. In 1874 she broke with the establishment and joined the first Impressionist exhibition at photographer Nadar's studio, alongside Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley. She participated in all but one of the eight Impressionist exhibitions that followed between 1874 and 1886. Married to Eugène Manet, brother of Édouard Manet, she moved within the inner circle of the movement. By 1894, critic Gustave Geffroy named her one of "…

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Berthe Morisot
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There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination.
2 quotes on weather, in a letter to her sister Edma, Summer 1873; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and
Berthe Morisot
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During the day I received a visit from Puvis de Chavannes; he saw what I had done [painted in 1869-70 in Lorient] and didn't seem to think it was too bad..
quote from Morisot's letter, September 1870 to Edma, in Morisot's Correspondence, p. 32; as cited in Psychoanalytic Perspetives on Art, ed.
Berthe Morisot
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I have heard so much about the perils ahead that I have had nightmares for several nights, in which I lived through all the horrors of war..
In a letter, Late Sept. 1870 to her sister Edma, from besieged Paris by the Germans; as cited in Impressionist quartet, ed. Jeffrey Meyers;
Berthe Morisot
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It seems to me a painting [she is working on] like the one I gave Manet ['The Harbour at Lorient'] could perhaps sell, and that is all I care about.
note about her first painting she started after the battle in Paris, 1870; in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot with her family and
Berthe Morisot
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He [ Manet ] begged me to go straight up and see his painting [ 'Le Balcon'] - Berthe was model for this painting], as he was rooted to the spot.
quote from Berthe Morisot to her sister Edma Morisot, after visiting the Salon of Paris in 1869; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe
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