Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841 – 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Morisot was born in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edme Tiburce Morisot, was the prefect (senior administrator) of the department of Cher.
In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de 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 Cezanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley.
Morisot was married to Eugene Manet, the brother of her friend and colleague Edouard Manet. Morisot died on March 2, 1895, in Paris, of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie’s similar illness, thus making Julie an orphan at the age of 16.
Click here to read Morisot’s full bio on Wikipedia.
Morisot painted in many different places in France, although most of here works were portraits, she still made many landscapes. Here are the places she painted in France (a link “⇠” to her works for each place will appear when published):
- Brittany
- Lorient
- Portrieux
- Centre-Val de Loire
- Hauts-de-France
- Valenciennes
- Normandy
- Fecamp (and surroundings) ⇠
- Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur
- Nice
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