Berthe Morisot: Paintings
()
About this ebook
Read more from Valene Tolman
Goya: Drawings and Etchings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenri Rousseau Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Modigliani: Drawings Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related to Berthe Morisot
Related ebooks
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Paul Cézanne and artworks Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPaul Gauguin: His Palette Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsToulouse-Lautrec: His Palette Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClaude Monet and artworks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Delphi Complete Works of Édouard Manet (Illustrated) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Delphi Complete Paintings of Berthe Morisot (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsEdgar Degas Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pierre-Auguste Renoir and artworks Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Sisley Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ultimate book on Claude Monet Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Delphi Complete Works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Illustrated) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Pissarro Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelphi Collected Works of Alfred Sisley (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelphi Complete Paintings of Georges Seurat (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMary Cassatt: Paintings Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Impressionism 120 illustrations Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ingres: His Palette Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCassatt and artworks Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Vincent Van Gogh and artworks Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Impressionism and Post-Impressionism Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelphi Works of Claude Monet (Illustrated) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cézanne Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDelphi Complete Paintings of Gustave Courbet (Illustrated) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Delphi Complete Paintings of Camille Pissarro (Illustrated) Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsChagall and artworks Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Berthe Morisot: Drawings Colour Plates Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Toulouse-Lautrec Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Renoir: Drawings 168 Colour Plates Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for Berthe Morisot
0 ratings0 reviews
Book preview
Berthe Morisot - Valene Tolman
Berthe Morisot: Paintings
By Valene Tolman
First Edition
Copyright © 2015 by Valene Tolman
*****
Berthe Morisot: Paintings
*****
Foreword
Berthe Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of les trois grandes dames
of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.
In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government, and judged by academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Académie des beaux-arts in Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874 she joined the rejected
Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. It was held at the studio of the photographer Nadar.
She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, Édouard Manet, when she married his brother, Eugène.
Morisot was born in Bourges, Cher, France, into a successful bourgeois family. According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters. Both Berthe and her sister, Edma Morisot,