The Harbor at Lorient
∞ Berthe Morisot 1869 Oil on Canvas National Gallery of Art Washington DC
The Butterfly Chase
∞ Berthe Morisot 1874
Summer’s Day
∞ Berthe Morisot 1879
The Mother and Sister of the Artist
∞ Berthe Morisot 1869
A Woman at her Toilette
∞ Berthe Morisot 1875
The Cradle
∞ Berthe Morisot 1872 Oil on Canvas Musée d'Orsay
Villenueve-la-Garenne
∞ Berthe Morisot 1875 Oil on Canvas Private Collection
The Lesson in the Garden
∞ Berthe Morisot 1886 Oil on Canvas
Tureen and Apple,
∞ Berthe Morisot 1877 Oil on Canvas Denver Art Museum
The Dining Room of the Rouart Family, Avenue d’Eylau
∞ Berthe Morisot 1880 Oil on Canvas Private Collection
Woman in a Garden
∞ Berthe Morisot 1883 Oil on Canvas Art Institute of Chicago
Eugene Manet and His Daughter in the Garden
∞ Berthe Morisot 1883 Oil Private Collection
Young Girl with Doll
∞ Berthe Morisot 1883 Oil on Canvas Private Collection
Little Girl with Blond Hair
∞ Berthe Morisot 1883 Oil on Canvas Private Collection
In the Garden at Maurecourt
∞ Berthe Morisot 1884 Oil on Canvas Toledo Museum of Art
A Corner of the Rose Garden
∞ Berthe Morisot 1885 Oil on Canvas Private Collection
Julie Manet and her Greyhound
∞ Berthe Morisot Oil on Canvas Musée Marmottan
Woman with a Fan
∞ Berthe Morisot 1876 Oil on Canvas Private Collection
Woman Picking Flowers
∞ Berthe Morisot 1879 Oil on Canvas Nationalmuseum Stockholm
Woman in Black
∞ Berthe Morisot 1878 Oil on Canvas National Gallery of Ireland
Villa with Orange Trees, Nice
∞ Berthe Morisot 1882 Oil on Canvas Private CollectionBerthe Morisot
“It is important to express oneself… provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience.”
Morisot, Berthe (b. Jan. 14, 1841, Bourges, Fr.–d. March 2, 1895, Paris)
French painter and printmaker. The first woman to join the circle of the French impressionist painters, she exhibited in all but one of their shows, and, despite the protests of friends and family, continued to participate in their struggle for recognition. Born into a family of wealth and culture, Morisot received the conventional lessons in drawing and painting. She went firmly against convention, however, in choosing to take these pursuits seriously and make them her life’s work. Having studied for a time under Camille Corot, she later began her long friendship withEdouard Manet, who became her brother-in-law in 1874 and was the most important single influence on the development of her style. Unlike most of the other impressionists, who were then intensely engaged in optical experiments with color, Morisot and Manet agreed on a more conservative approach, confining their use of color to a naturalistic framework. Morisot, however, did encourage Manet to adopt the impressionists’ high-keyed palette and to abandon the use of black. Her own carefully composed, brightly hued canvases are often studies of women, either out-of-doors or in domestic settings. Morisot and American artist Mary Cassatt are generally considered the most important women painters of the later 19th century.
