Berthe Morisot · 1841–1895
Berthe Morisot
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was a French woman painter and one of the Impressionists. She exhibited at the Impressionist exhibitions from the first to the eighth, leaving works of bright color and delicate feeling.
Berthe Morisot was a French woman painter born in Bourges. Among her ancestors was the 18th-century genre painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard. She studied landscape painting with Corot, then met Édouard Manet and became his pupil, also serving as his model in works such as The Balcony (Musée d'Orsay). She later married Manet's brother Eugène, becoming Manet's sister-in-law.
She showed The Cradle (Musée d'Orsay) at the first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and continued to exhibit through the eighth. Her works are full of urban, light sensibility and bright color, and are said to carry a feminine, delicate feeling. In Japan, Girl in a Pink Dress and On the Terrace are held.
Berthe Morisot was born on January 14, 1841 and died on March 2, 1895.
