Berthe Morisot
(French, 1841–1895)
Biography
Berthe Morisot was a French painter and printmaker involved in the Impressionist movement. Morisot employed flickering brushstrokes and a light palette to depict domestic scenes, landscapes, and portraits. “It is important to express oneself, provided the feelings are real and are taken from your own experience,” she once said. Born on January 14, 1841 in Bourges, France, Morisot was the great-niece of the Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Studying under the Barbizon School painter Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, she learned to make paintings en plein air. As a young woman Morisot developed a friendship with the artist Édouard Manet, Manet would go on to paint a number of portraits of her, including Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets (1872). She later married Manet’s brother Eugène, and produced a number of paintings capturing the fleeting effects of light upon water, including her Summer’s Day (1879). Morisot died on March 2, 1895 in Paris, France. Today, the artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, the National Gallery in London, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, among others.
Berthe Morisot
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.jpg "Jeune Fille au Manteau Vert (Girl in a Green , 1894")
.jpg "Tête de jeune fille (Jeanne-Marie)")
.jpg "Tête de Bébé en Bonnet (Head of a Child, the , 1878")
Berthe Morisot
Tête de Bébé en Bonnet (Head of a Child, the , 1878
Sale Date: April 17, 2024
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;-études-pour-jeune-fille-(verso).jpg "Jeune fille mangeant un fruit sous un arbre..., 1890")
Berthe Morisot
Jeune fille mangeant un fruit sous un arbre..., 1890
Sale Date: November 11, 2023
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