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Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a painter and a
member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the
Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was
a woman, she is now considered among the first league of Impressionist
painters.
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, Morisot, 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. |
