French Impressionism: Berthe Morisot

Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 – 1895)

Hide and Seek, 1873

Boats Entry to the Medina in the Isle of Wight, 1875

Oil on canvas, 17.5 x 19 cm. Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Cheval Glass, 1876

Dahlias, circa 1876

 Young Girl in a Ball Gown, 1879

The Port of Nice, 1882

Roses Tremieres, 1884

The Garden at Bougival, 1884

 Tulips, 1890

 Jeune fille écrivant, 1891

Landscape of Tours 1892

Geraniums by the Lake, 1893

Forest of Fontainebleau, 1893

Berthe Morisot - Bateau illuminé

Jeune femme près d’une fenêtre

Landscape

The port of Nice

The quay at Bougival

Paysage

Paule Gobillard - Berthe Morisot Painting

Berthe Morisot, 1875

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 Geffroyin 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.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berthe_Morisot

Édouard Manet

Berthe Morisot Portrait (1872)

Low Tide at Berck, 1873

Les hirondelles, 1873

The grand canal of Venice (Blue Venice) 1875

Manet visited the Grand Canal Venice in September 1875 with his friend and fellow painter from outside the Impressionist circle James Tissot, who had settled in London after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71. Although the watery splendour of Venice has inspired many great artists, Manet found it hard to settle, but in spite of this he managed to paint one of his most dashingly Impressionist art works. 

Blonde Woman with Bare Breasts, 1878

Oil on Canvas

Un bar aux Folies Bergère, Paris (1882)

Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French painter. He was one of the first 19th-century artists to paint modern life, and a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism.

His early masterworks, The Luncheon on the Grass (Le déjeuner sur l'herbe) and Olympia, both 1863, caused great controversy and served as rallying points for the young painters who would create Impressionism. Today, these are considered watershed paintings that mark the genesis of modern art.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet