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Berthe Morisot

Born: Bourges, 14 January 1841
Died: Paris, 2 March 1895
Nationality: French
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