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Berthe Morisot

French painter (1841-1895) · France · Artists · Died at 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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1895Died2 March 18951873“There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination.”In their words2 quotes on weather, in a letter to her sister Edma, Summer 1873; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and

1870“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..”In their wordsSeptember 1870quote from Morisot's letter, September 1870 to Edma, in Morisot's Correspondence, p. 32; as cited in Psychoanalytic Perspetives on Art, ed.

“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 their wordsSeptember 1870In a letter, Late Sept. 1870 to her sister Edma, from besieged Paris by the Germans; as cited in Impressionist quartet, ed. Jeffrey Meyers;

1869“Corot spoiled the 'étude' [study] we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio.”In their wordsQuote in a letter to Edma, 1869, in Morisot's Correspondence, p. 32; as cited by Margaret Sehnan in Berthe Morisot, the first lady of

“I will achieve it only [being an artist] by perseverance, and by openly asserting my determination to emancipate myself, [but].. ..I both lament and envy your [Edma's] fate.”In their wordsin an unpublished extract from a letter of Berthe to Edma, written in 1869; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, ed. Denis

1864“His [ Edouard Manet's] paintings, as they always do, produce the impression of a wild or even a somewhat unripe fruit. I do not in the least dislike them.”In their wordsQuote of Berthe 1864-65 in a letter to her sister Edma Morisot; as cited in Berthe Morisot, the first lady of Impressionism, Margaret

1841Born14 January 1841

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  1. There is constant sun, good weather all the time, the ocean like a slab of slate - there is nothing less picturesque than this combination.

    1873, 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, Own words

  2. He [Manet] came about one o'clock [the day for submitting works for The Paris Salon of 1870].

    1870, In a letter, Winter of 1869; as quoted in The Private Lives of the Impressionists, Sue Roe; Harper Collins Publishers, New York, 2006, pp., Own words

  3. 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..

    Sep 1870, quote from Morisot's letter, September 1870 to Edma, in Morisot's Correspondence, p. 32; as cited in Psychoanalytic Perspetives on Art, ed., Own words

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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 "Les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism, alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.

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Lived 1841 to 1895 · aged 54

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