Berthe Morisot - Young Woman Seated on a Sofa 1879

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Berthe Morisot - Young Woman Seated on a Sofa 1879

Young Woman Seated on a Sofa 1879
80x99cm oil/canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, United States

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From Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York:
At about the time that Morisot depicted this model in her Paris apartment, an admiring critic wrote: "she grinds flower petals onto her palette, in order to spread them later on her canvas with airy, witty touches…producing something vital, fine, and charming." The painter was then at her apogee, having melded the bravura brushwork adopted from her mentor and brother-in-law, Édouard Manet, with her own opalescent tints. Born into an upper-middle-class family, Morisot diverged from societal norms when she established herself as a professional artist, but was highly successful, participating in the official Salons and in seven of the eight Impressionist exhibitions.