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Berthe Morisot 1841 – 1895

Berthe Morisot, (born January 14, 1841, Bourges, France—died March 2, 1895, Paris), French painter and printmaker who exhibited regularly with the Impressionists and, despite the protests of friends and family, continued to participate in their struggle for recognition.
The daughter of a high government official (and a granddaughter of the important Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard), Morisot decided early to be an artist and pursued her goal with seriousness and dedication. From 1862 to 1868 she worked under the guidance of Camille Corot. She first exhibited paintings at the Salon in 1864. Her work was exhibited there regularly through 1874, when she vowed never to show her paintings in the officially sanctioned forum again. In 1868 she met Édouard Manet, who was to exert a tremendous influence over her work. He did several portraits of her (e.g., Repose, c. 1870). Manet had a liberating effect on her work, and she in turn aroused his interest in outdoor painting. In 1874 she married Manet’s younger brother, Eugène, also a painter.
Morisot’s work never lost its Manet-like quality—an insistence on design—nor did she become as involved in colour-optical experimentation as her fellow Impressionists. Her paintings frequently included members of her family, particularly her sister, Edma (e.g., The Artist’s Sister, Mme Pontillon, Seated on the Grass, 1873; and The Artist’s Sister Edma and Their Mother, 1870). Delicate and subtle, exquisite in colour—often with a subdued emerald glow—they won her the admiration of her Impressionist colleagues. Like that of the other Impressionists, her work was ridiculed by many critics. Never commercially successful during her lifetime, she nevertheless outsold Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. She was a woman of great culture and charm and counted among her close friends Stéphane Mallarmé, Edgar Degas, Charles Baudelaire, Émile Zola, Emmanuel Chabrier, Renoir, and Monet.
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Calvary (after Veronese) 1858	Farm in Normandy 1859	Old Path at Auvers 1863	View of Tivoli (after Corot) 1863	Cows in Normandy 1864	The Water's Edge. Study 1864	The Artist's Sister Edma Seated in a Park. Young Lady Seated on a Bench 1864	Thatched Cottage in Normandy 1865	Peonies 1869
Rosalie Reisener 1866	The Seine below the Pont d'Lena 1866	Rosbras. Finistere 1866-1867	Landscape 1867	The Artist's Sister at a Window 1869	The Harbor at Lorient 1869	Two Sisters on a Couch. The Sisters 1869	Mother and Sister of the Artist 1869-1870	Portrait of Edma 1870
The Pink Dress 1870	Portrait of a Young Girl 1870-1880	On the Sofa 1871	Portrait of Madame 1871	The Harbour at Cherbourg 1871	Woman and Child Seated in a Meadow 1871	Young Woman 1871	Woman and Child on a Balcony 1871-1872	A Corner of Paris, View towards Passy 1872
Interior 1872	On the Balcony 1872	The Artist's Sister Edma with Her Daughter Jeanne 1872	The Cradle 1872	View of Paris from the Trocadero Heights 1872	Portrait of the Artist's Sister, Mme Edma Pontillon 1872-1875	Hide and Seek 1873	Portrait of Marguerite Carre. Young Girl in a Ball Gown 1873	Reading with Green Umbrella 1873
The Beach at Petit-Dalles. On the Beach 1873	The Village of Maurecourt 1873	Young Girl with a Parrot 1873	Beneath the Lilacs at Marecourt 1874	Boats under Construction 1874	Chasing Butterflies 1874	Harbor in the Port of Fecamp 1874	In a Villa at the Seaside 1874	Lilacs at Maurecourt 1874
Madame Boursier and Her Daughter 1874	On the Lawn 1874	On the Terrace 1874	Portrait of Madame Hubbard 1874	Aboard a Yacht 1875	At the Ball 1875	Boat at Dock 1875	Boats. Entry to the Medina in the Isle of Wight. Pugad baboy 1875	English Seascape. Harbor Scene, Isle of Wight 1875
Eugene Manet on the Isle of Wight 1875	Girl and Child on the Grass 1875	Hanging the Laundry out to Dry 1875	Harbour Scene, Isle Wight 1875	In the Wheat Fields at Gennevilliers 1875	Landscape at Gennevilliers 1875	Landscape near Valenciennes 1875	On the Beach 1875	The Little Windmill at Gennevilliers 1875
Villenueve-la-Garenne 1875	West Cowes, Isle of Wight. Port in England 1875	Woman in Black. Before the Theater 1875	Dahlias 1876	Psyche 1876	Woman with a Fan. Head of a Girl 1876	Young Woman Watering a Shrub 1876	Tureen and Apple 1877	Young Woman Powdering Her Face 1877
Summer. Young Woman by a Window 1878	Woman in Black 1878	A Summer's Day 1879	Behind the Blinds 1879	By the Water 1879	Luncheon in the Countryside 1879	Woman Picking Flowers. In the Boid de Boulogne 1879	Young Woman Dressed for the Ball 1879	Young Woman in Grey Reclining 1879
Young Woman Seated on a Sofa 1879	Boats on the Seine 1880	Julie with Her Nurse 1880	Portrait of Marcel Gobillard 1880	Snowy Landscape. Frost 1880	The Dining Room of the Rouart Family, Avenue d'Eylau. Dans la salle à manger. In the Dining Room 1880	The Wet Nurse Angele Feeding Julie Manet 1880	Winter. Woman with a Muff 1880	Woman Getting Dressed. Young Woman Fastening Her Stockings 1880
Young Woman at the Mirror. Young Girl Getting Dressed, Seen from the Back 1880	Young Woman in a Rowboat, Eventail 1880	Young Woman in Mauve 1880	After Luncheon 1881	Child in the Rose Garden 1881	Eugene Manet and His Daughter at Bougival 1881	Julie with Pasie in the Garden at Bougival 1881	On the Balcony of Eugene Manet's Room at Bougival 1881	Woman Hanging out the Wash 1881
Pasie Sewing in the Garden 1881-1882	The Port of Nice 1881-1882	Child Playing in the Garden 1882	Harbor at Nice 1882	Harvest a Bougival 1882	Landscape of La Creuse 1882	Little Girl Sitting on the Grass 1882	Mother and Child Picking Nasturtiums 1882	Mud Pie 1882
Studies of a Little Girl 1882	Tea. Portrait of Paule Gobillard, the Artist's Niece 1882	Tete de chien griffon, Follette 1882	The Beach at Nice 1882	The Port of Nice 1882	Villa with Orange Trees, Nice 1882	Eugene Manet and His Daughter in the Garden 1883	Girl Writing. Julie Manet 1883	Haymakers at Bougival 1883
Haystack 1883	Landscape 1883	Little Girl in Mauve 1883	Little Girl with Blond Hair 1883	The Fable 1883	The Quay at Bougival 1883	Young Girl with Doll 1883	Young Woman and Child on an Isle 1883	Young Woman Sewing in the Garden 1883
Young Woman Watering a Shrub 1883	Venus at the Forge of Vulcan, after Boucher 1883-1884	Autumn in the Bois de Boulogne 1884	Child in Bed 1884	Doll on a Porch 1884	In the Garden at Maurecourt 1884	Julie and Her Boat 1884	Julie Writing 1884	Little Girl in a Garden 1884
Miss Reynolds 1884	On the Lake in the Bois de Boulogne 1884	On the Lake 1884	On the Veranda 1884	Portrait of Paule Gobillard 1884	Rose Tremière 1884	The Garden at Bougival 1884	The Seine at Bougival 1884	The Sewing Lesson. The Artist's Daughter, Julie, with Her Nanny 1884
Willows in the Garden at Bougival 1884	Woman and Child in a Garden 1884	Young Girl with Doll 1884	Young Girl on the Grass. Mlle Isabelle Lambert 1885	Head of an English Woman 1884-1885	A Corner of the Rose Garden 1885	Chrysanthe- mums. Overturned Basket 1885	Daffodils 1885	Daisies 1885
Girl on a Divan 1885	Girl with Bare Shoulders 1885	In the Garden 1885	Lady with a Parasol Sitting in a Park 1885	Little Dancer 1885	Little Girl in a White Sun Bonnet 1885	Nude from Behind 1885	Portrait of Berthe Morisot and Her Daughter. Self Portrait with Julie 1885	Portraitof Mademoiselle Labillois 1885
Rose Garden 1885	Self Portrait 1885	The Basket Chair 1885	The Cage 1885	The Goose 1885	The Tuileries 1885	Woman Wearing Gloves. The Parisian 1885	Getting out of Bed 1885-1886	Getting Up 1885-1886
The Bath 1885-1886	Child with a Red Apron 1886	Children with a Bowl 1886	Cottage Interior. Interior at Jersey 1886	Girl with Dog 1886	In the Dining Room 1886	Little Girl in a Blue Dress 1886	Little Girl with a Doll 1886	Maisons Sous La Neige 1886
Orchard in Jersey 1886	Paule Gobillard Drawing 1886	Paule Gobillard Painting 1886	Port of Gorey 1886	Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Julie Manet, at Gorey 1886	The Lesson in the Garden 1886	The Little Maid Servant 1886	Tightrope Walker 1886	Young Woman in White. Isabelle Lemmonier 1886
Before the Bath 1886-1887	Girl with a Dog 1887	Paula Gobillard in Her Ball Gown 1887	Self Portrait with Julie, study 1887	Young Woman Leaning on Her Elbow 1887	Bather Standing 1888	Fall Colors in the Bois de Boulogne 1888	Girl with Shuttlecock. Jeanne Bonnet 1888	Head of a Red-Haired Girl 1888
Jeannie's Head. Tete de Jeannie 1888	Julie Listening 1888	Reading 1888	Swans 1888	The Blue Vase 1888	The Piano 1888	Young Girl and the Budgie 1888	Young Woman Putting on Her Skates 1888	Carriage in the Bois de Boulogne 1889
Garden at Cimiez 1889	Girl in a Boat, with Geese 1889	Illuminated Boat 1889	Madame Albine Sermicola in the Studio 1889	On a Bench 1889	Portrait of Julie 1889	The Little Girl from Nice, Celestine 1889	The Mandolin 1889	The Orange Picker 1889
The Orange Picker 1889	Young Woman in a Blue Blouse 1889	Young Woman Picking Oranges 1889	Before the Mirror 1890	Bust of Alice Gamby 1890	Girl Playing the Mandolin 1890	Girl Seated in a Field 1890	Julie Manet with a Budgie 1890	Julie Manet, Reading in a Chaise Lounge 1890
Little Girl with Long Hair 1890	Little Saint John 1890	Peasant Girl among Tulips 1890	The Bowl of Milk 1890	The Flageolet 1890	The Rising Moon over the Seine Valley 1890	The Flageolet 1890	Bather 1891	Conversation 1891
Girl Writing 1891	Haying at Mezy 1891	Pears 1891	Pink Anemones 1891	Shepherdess Laying Down 1891	Shepherdess Laying Down 1891	The Cherry Tree (study) 1891	The Cherry Tree 1891	The Cherry Tree 1891
The Reclining Shepherdess 1891	Young Girl Drawing 1891	Young Girl Picking Cherries 1891	Young Girl with a Bird 1891	Young Woman in a Blue Blouse 1891	Young Woman in a Hat. Henriette Patte 1891	Young Woman in White 1891	Bathers 1892	Boating on the Lake 1892
Girl in a Straw Hat 1892	Girl with Cat 1892	Girl with Dog 1892	Little Girl at Mesnil. Jeanne Bodeau 1892	Little Girls at the Window. Jeanne and Edma Bodeau 1892	Lucie Leon at the Piano 1892	Portrait of Marthe Givaudon 1892	The Bath at Mesnil 1892	Two Nymphs Embracing 1892
Woman with a Child in a Boat 1892	Young Woman Holding a Dog in Her Arms 1892	Studying the Violin 1892-1893	Forest of Fontainebleau 1893	Forest. Study 1893	Girl Holding Her Skate 1893	Girl Lying Down 1893	Girl with Fan 1893	Jeanne Pontillon Wearing a Hat 1893
Jeanne Pontillon 1893	Jeune Fille a la Levrette 1893	Julie Manet and Her Greyhound, Laertes 1893	Julie Playing a Violin 1893	Park at Fontainebleau 1893	Portrait of Children 1893	Samois 1893	The Violin 1893	Young Girl with an Umbrella 1893
At the Dressing Table 1894	At the Exposition Palace 1894	Bather in a Chemise 1894	Branch of a Hydrangea 1894	Choir Boy 1894	Girl en face with Nude Shoulders, Seated 1894	Jeannie Gobillard 1894	Julie Daydreaming 1894	Julie Manet in a Liberty Hat 1894
Julie Manet Playing the Violin in a White Dress 1894	Little Girl Seated on the Lawn 1894	On a Bench in the Bois de Boulogne 1894	On the Beach at Portrieux 1894	On the Cliff at Portrieux 1894	Portrait of Jeanne Pontillon 1894	Roses 1894	Skating in the Park 1894	Sunset at the Lake in the Bois de Boulogne 1894
Lucie Léon at the Piano 1892	The Bath 1894	The Black Finger Bandage 1894	The Bois de Boulogne 1894	The Greyhound Laërte 1894	The Hairdresser 1894	The Hydrangea 1894	The Toilette 1894	Woman and Child 1894
Women and Little Girls in a Natural Setting 1894	Le Petit Saint-Jean 1890	Young Girl Resting 1894	Young Girl Resting 1894	Young Woman and Child, Avenue du Bois 1894	Young Woman and Child, Avenue du Bois 1894	Young Woman in Green Coat 1894	Young Woman Leaning on Her Elbows 1894	Young Woman Putting-up Her Hair 1894