Berthe Morisot

Works by this Artist

In a Villa at the Seaside
Berthe Morisot, 1874

Background

bourgeois

Studies

with Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne; with Joseph-Benoît Guichard (1858); with Achille-Francois Oudinot (student of Corot)

Career

1864 –begins exhibiting regularly at Paris Salon

1868-69 – meets Edouard Manet

1874 – exhibits in and helps organize the First Impressionist exhibitions; stops exhibiting at the Salon; marries Eugéne Manet

1876 – participates in Second Impressionist exhibition (also Third-1877, Fifth-1880, Sixth-1881, Seventh-1882, and Eighth/last-1886)

Important Artworks

Mother and Sister of the Artist (Reading), 1869-70 (National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)

The Cradle, 1872 (Musée d’Orsay, Paris)

Dealer

Paul Durand-Ruel

Readings

Adler, Kathleen and Tamar Garb. Berthe Morisot. Ithaca, NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987

Buettner, Stewart. “Images of Modern Motherhood in the Art of Morisot, Cassatt, Modersohn-Becker, Kollwitz,” Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 7, no. 2 (Autumn 1986 – Winter 1987): 14-21

Garb, Tamar. “Berthe Morisot and the Feminizing of Impressionism,” in Janis Tomlinson, ed., Readings in Nineteenth-Century Art. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1996, pp. 230-45

Higgonet, Anne. Berthe Morisot’s Images of Women. Cambridge, MA and London: Harvard University Press, 1992

Stuckey, Charles F. Berthe Morisot, Impressionist. Exhibition catalogue. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1987

Images