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Berthe Morisot
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
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culture · French artist (1841–1895) · painter · draftsperson · engraver · lithographer · artist · also Berthe Morisot, Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot, Berthe Manet, Berthe Manet Morisot, Berthe-Marie-Pauline Morisot, Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot Manet
Born 14 January 1841 · Died 2 March 1895 · Q105320
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2026· 2 entries
Hyperallergic: Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot Meet as Equals
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2024· 1 entry
Artnet: Art Bites: Manet and Morisot’s Creative—and Complicated—Bond
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2023· 1 entry
The Guardian: Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism review – a woman’s world
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2020· 1 entry
Artnet: Berthe Morisot’s Scene of Summer Tranquility Was Unusual for Its Time. Here Are 3 Facts You Might Not Know About the Impressionist Masterpiece
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2019· 2 entries
The Financial Times: Berthe Morisot: How the subversive female Impressionist shaped the canon
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The Musée d'Orsay devoted a temporary exhibition to Berthe Morisot to pay tribute to her work
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2018· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Why Berthe Morisot Was an Essential Figure in the Impressionist Movement
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2010· 1 entry
The Daily Telegraph: Berthe Morisot: the forgotten Impressionist
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1895· 5 entries
Died 1895-03-02.
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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.”
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“Salvation and death cannot stare each other in the eye.”
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“I do not think any man would ever treat a woman as his equal, and it is all I ask because I know my worth.”
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Morisot died on 2 March 1895, in Paris, of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie's similar illness, thus making Julie an orphan at the age of 16.
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1894· 1 entry
As one of Les trois grandes dames, 'The three great ladies', of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt
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1890· 1 entry
Morisot wrote in a notebook about her struggles to be taken seriously as an artist: "I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as
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1877· 1 entry
Was described by the critic for Le Temps as the "one real Impressionist in this group
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1875· 1 entry
The Interior (Young Woman with Mirror) sold for 480 francs, and her pastel On the Lawn sold for 320 francs
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1874· 3 entries
She became his longtime friend and colleague, and she married his brother, Eugène Manet, in 1874.
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Berthe's submission to the Salon was rejected; it would be the last time she would submit a piece to the exhibition
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Joined the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions (15 April – 15 May 1874), which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley
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1868· 1 entry
Henri Fantin-Latour, a fellow artist, introduced Morisot to Édouard Manet in 1868.
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1866· 1 entry
And was painted by Edgar Degas as Madame Théodore Gobillard (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City)
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1864· 1 entry
Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Paris Salon, listed as a student of Joseph Guichard and Achille-Francois Oudinot
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1861· 1 entry
Was introduced to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, the pivotal landscape painter of the Barbizon school who also excelled in figure painting
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1857· 2 entries
And her first teacher, Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne, taught her the basics of drawing
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Guichard, who ran a school for girls in Rue des Moulins, introduced Berthe and Edma to the Louvre gallery where from 1858 they learned by copying paintings
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1841· 1 entry
Born 1841-01-14.
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