Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (French: [bɛʁt mɔʁizo]; January 14, 1841 – March 2, 1895) was a French painter and a supporter of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.
In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first mature in the severely 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 acquit yourself was agreed for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she associated 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. Morisot went on to participate in anything but one of the when eight impressionist exhibitions, between 1874 and 1886.
Morisot was married to Eugène Manet, the brother of her buddy and colleague Édouard Manet.
She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of “les trois grandes dames” of Impressionism to the side of Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.
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