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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Berthe Morisot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Berthe Morisot in a portrait by Édouard Manet, 1872
Berthe Morisot died on March 2, 1895 in Paris and was interred in the Cimetière de Passy.
Berthe Morisot was a grand-daughter of the painter Fragonard and the sister-in-law of Manet, but her interest in painting was not the result of this connection.
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 Berthe Morisot Summary
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was one of the influential painters of the French Impressionist school of art.
Morisot's first acceptance in the Salon de Paris came in 1864 with two landscape paintings, and she continued to show regularly in the Salon until 1874, the year of the first impressionist exhibition.
Morisot, along with Camille Pissarro, was one of only two artists whose work exhibited in all of the original impressionist shows.
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 WetCanvas: Virtual Museum: Individual Artists: Berthe Morisot
Morisot exhibited regularly at the Salon, and at all the Impressionist exhibitions except for 1879.
Berthe Morisot was a grand-daughter of the painter Fragonard and the sister-in-law of Manet, but her interest in painting was not the result of this connection.
Berthe Morisot was rather jealous of another woman painter of talent who studied under Manet and followed his manner closely.
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 Canvas Creations - Berthe Morisot Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Morisot was the daughter of a top civil servant and a great- niece of the rococo painter Fragonard.
Morisot was the first woman to join the circle of the French impressionist painters, and she exhibited at all but one of the Impressionist exhibitions.
Berthe Morisot and American artist Mary Cassatt are generally considered the most important women painters of the later 19th century.
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Born into a wealthy and cultured Borgeois family in France, Berthe Morisot was a French painter who, paved her own way and fought for respect in an unorthodox role for a woman.
Morisot's father wasa government administrator and her mother was accomplished in areas "appropriate for a woman." Morisot's mother had fine clothing, could serve good tea, and was very maternal.
Despite the sometimes trying role of a woman painter, Morisot is remembered as a bourgious woman who "prided herself on her elegant and fashionable clothes, a mother and a wife who valued both of these roles, and a painter and a collegue of the Impressionists" (Adler and Garb 1987).
www.brown.edu /Courses/CG11/Group002/Berthe_Morisot.htm   (367 words)

  
 Berthe Morisot, Who Manned The Canvas (washingtonpost.com)
Berthe Morisot, one of the pioneers of impressionism and the first female member of the movement, was a cross-dresser.
Morisot's breakthrough paintings of the 1870s are barely represented, and there are holes across the rest of her career.
Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle is at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave.
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Though Berthe was recognized as a talented pupil, it was not until she was sixteen that she and her sisters began pursuing art seriously.
Morisot had a studio build in the garden for Edmé and Berthe to work in and Mme Morisot attended all of the exhibitions, listened in on the viewers' comments, and reported to the married Yves whether or not the girls artworks were displayed in a favorable position.
Nonetheless, despite his efforts and the fact that she married his brother Eugene that year, in 1874, Berthe Morisot began to exhibit with the Impressionists and did so every year until the last exhibition in 1886 with the exception of the year her daughter Julie Manet was born.
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 Berthe Morisot Biography - Renoir Fine Art Inc.
Berthe Morisot was a woman of extraordinary talents who carved for herself a career within the art world of nineteenth century Paris.
Berthe Morisot was born in 1841 (the same year as Pierre Auguste Renoir, her future colleague, advisor, and friend) to Edmé-Tiburce Morisot and Marie Corneille Thomas.
Nonetheless, despite his efforts, Berthe Morisot began to exhibit with the Impressionists and did so every year until the last exhibition in 1886 with the exception of the year her daughter Julie Manet was born in 1878.
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 National Museum of Women in the Arts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Morisot succeeded as a professional artist, despite society’s expectations for women from respectable upper-middle-class families, to acquire artistic training as a genteel hobby.
Their influence is also apparent in the numerous images that Morisot painted of her mother, sisters, and nieces, as well as of her own daughter Julie, to whom she gave birth in 1878, and who would become her favorite model and painting companion.
Morisot remained faithful to the Impressionists after others abandoned the movement, participating in seven of the eight exhibitions and single-handedly organizing the final show in 1886.
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 Malaspina Great Books - Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Berthe Morisot was a French impressionist painter (1841-1895) who demonstrated the possibilities for women artists in avant-garde art movements at the end of the 19th century.
Berthe Morisot was born into a successful bourgeois family who encouraged her and her sister in their exploration of art and, once Berthe settle on pursuing art seriously, did not impede her career.
By the time she was 20, Morisot had met and befriended the important landscape painter of the Barbizon School Camille Corot,; who introduced her to other artists and teachers.
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 NMWA | Private Collection | Profile - Berthe Morisot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Berthe Morisot identified herself as an impressionist, the French 19th-century group of artists who rebelled against the Salon and the academic works exhibited there.
That Morisot described the process of painting as a "pitched battle with her canvasses" held no sway in prefeminist literature on the artist.
Morisot flourished artistically, copying paintings at the Louvre, studying under the painter Camille Corot, and absorbing the tenets of plein-air painting.
www.nmwa.org /collection/profile.asp?LinkID=609   (324 words)

  
 BERTHE MORISOT - Biography
Berthe Morisot’s came from a well-educated, conservative and cultured family; she and her sister, Edma, were first taught to draw by their father, a monarchist and senior civil servant.
Unlike her sister, Morisot balanced her role of wife and mother with that of artist, continuing to paint, something she had thought earlier to be an impossibility; she had assumed she would have to sacrifice marriage and motherhood for her art.
Morisot was highly self-critical and demanding, yet she was a loving mother and inspired passionate friendships with her contemporaries Degas, Monet, Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes, Mallarmé and the young Henri de Règnier, her presence seeming to calm their quarrels.
www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/frlscape/morisbio.htm   (527 words)

  
 Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle
Born January 14, 1841, in Bourges, France, Berthe Morisot was the third daughter of a prominent and wealthy government official.
Morisot and her older sister Edma quickly developed both a passion and a high level of skill in drawing and painting.
In 1895, Morisot died from pneumonia at the age of 54, leaving the majority of her works and collection to Julie who served as Morisot's champion by lending her works to international exhibitions until her own death in 1966, ensuring her mother a prominent place in the French avant-garde tradition.
www.speedmuseum.org /morisot_artist.html   (587 words)

  
 Morisot
Berthe Morisot's Wet Nurse and Julie [1] of 1879 is an extraordinary painting.2 Even in the Context of an oeuvre in which formal daring is relatively unexceptional, this work is outstanding.
Berthe Morisot, then, was being perfectly "natural" within the perimeters of her class in hiring a wet nurse.
Morisot is not, of course, in her paintings of her daughter and her wet 21 creating a sociological document of a particular kind of work or even a genre scene of some engaging incident involved in wet-nursing.
www.ncf.edu /hassold/WomenArtists/nochlin_chpt_two_morisot.htm   (4069 words)

  
 Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot was a woman that helped to define Impressionism.
She was born in 1841 in France and had taken private art lessons throughout all of her childhood.
Too bad she's not a man!" Also, after her death in 1895, her death certificate states that, "Mme Morisot was without any profession." I think it a shame that so much talent went unrecognized until years after her death.
www.angelfire.com /art/favoritewomenartists/berthe_morisot.htm   (197 words)

  
 Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle
Berthe Morisot: An Impressionist and Her Circle establishes the artist as a central figure of the movement, showing her paintings, prints, watercolors, and drawings alongside those of her more recognized male colleagues: Edouard Manet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Claude Monet.
Morisot succeeded as a professional artist, despite society's expectations for women from respectable upper-middle-class families, to acquire artistic training as a genteel hobby.
Their influence is also apparent in the numerous images that Morisot painted of her mother, sisters, and nieces, as well as of her own daughter Julie, to whom she gave birth in 1878, and who would become her favorite model and painting companion.
www.speedmuseum.org /morisot_exhibit.html   (433 words)

  
 Berthe Morisot biography
The Manet and Morisot families became close friends and from 1868 until she married in 1874, Berthe Morisot was Manet's favorite model.
Four women, Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzales and Marie Bracquemond became known as members of the Impressionist movement, however, Morisot was the first woman to join the circle of the French impressionist painters, and she exhibited at all but one of the Impressionist exhibitions.
Morisot's painting was delicate and subtle, exquisite in colour--often with a subdued emerald glow.
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 Berthe Morisot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Although Morisot, as a woman, was not allowed to enter the formal art schools, she learned by copying the masterpieces of the Louvre Museum and studying outdoor landscapes with painter, Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot.
Morisot soon entered the world of Impressionism leaving behind her more traditional education.
In 1874, Morisot joined the ranks of other Impressionist by refusing to show her works at the Salon.
www.brown.edu /Courses/CG11/Group039/morisot.htm   (158 words)

  
 CGFA- Bio: Berthe Morisot   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Berthe Morisot was a French painter and printmaker who exhibited regularly with the Impressionists and, despite the protests of friends and family, continued to participate in their struggle for recognition.
The daughter of a high government official (and a granddaughter of the important Rococo painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard), Morisot decided early to be an artist and pursued her goal with seriousness and dedication.
Morisot's work never lost its Manet-like quality—an insistence on design—nor did she become as involved in colour-optical experimentation as her fellow Impressionists.
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 BERTHE MORISOT - Landscape at Gennevilliers
In the Spring of 1875 Berthe Morisot and her husband Eugène Manet went to stay in Gennevilliers, where the Manet family had owned a property since the beginning of the eighteenth century.
Berthe Morisot's view of the hamlet of Le Petit Gennevilliers in 1875 depicts a rural paradise already corrupted by the presence of encroaching industrialization.
Morisot here captures a moment when the steady march of industrial progress did not yet seem inevitable, a time before the triumph of the machine age when town and country could still exist in seeming harmony.
www.europeanpaintings.com /exhibits/frlscape/morisgen.htm   (339 words)

  
 Edouard Manet "Berthe Morisot" - CentaurGalleries.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Berthe Morisot married Édouard Manet's brother Eugene at the end of 1874.
The face of Berthe Morisot is devoid of shading, the sheer white of the paper being used here to set off her costume and her fl hat.
This lithograph of Berthe Morisot and another of her drawn in outline, except for the hair, together with The Races, The Execution of Maximilian, The Barricade and Civil War, were all published in 1884, a year after Manet's death, each being printed in an edition of 100 impressions.
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 Morisot, Berthe on Encyclopedia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Morisot's works have been particularly popular in the United States, and many important works are in American collections.
Morisot and Manet.(Berthe Morisot and Edouard Manet, painters)
Berthe Morisot peinte par Edouard Manet de la fondation Denis Rouart Le musée de la Vie Romantique à Paris rend hommage au.
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 Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot was the organizing force behind the Impressionist group: she was the one who arranged all of their group exhibitions.
With the renewal of interest in the women of the Impressioist group, Morisot's critical reputation has risen substantially, and one sign of that hass been a number of recent books and museum shows dedicated to her work and to her role as the organizer of the various Impressionist exhibitions during her lifetime.
In this drypoint, we see Morisot using her copperplate as a sketch paid, rapidly intimating the edges of the parts of the drawing then lovingly focusing on those things that interest her most Image size: 120x148mm.
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 Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), painted by her brother-in-law, friend and impressionist colleague, Edouard Manet.
Berthe Morisot: "Madame Pontillon, the artist's sister, with her daughter Blanche" (1872).
With her fresh, bright impressions of happy domestic life, Berthe Morisot was an important contributor to Impressionism.
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 Artist Profile: Berthe Morisot, French Impressionist Painter, 19th Century
Morisot's painting began somewhat in the manner of Corot.
In Morisot's case, she and the painter Manet were acquaintances; he painted her several times, he looked at her work often; so, he is sometimes considered the influence on her painting.
Morisot continued to paint seriously, which she tried to downplay in the presence of her social peers, as it was considered very unusual and a social no-no for a woman to have a serious profession, particularly one so "questionable" as artist.
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 Berthe Morisot / Mlle. Louise Riesener / 1888
Berthe Morisot exhibited at the Salon from 1864 until 1873.
Morisot matured as a central member of the group of impressionists.
Morisot made pastels and watercolors as well as oil paintings, and during the final years of her life she experimented with lithography and drypoint etching.
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