Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot

Fecamp – The Artists – Morisot, Berthe

This page forms part of a series of pages dedicated to the many artists who worked in Fecamp. A full list of all the artists with a link to their works can be found at the bottom of this page.

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.

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1874 - Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot - Harbor in the Port of Fecamp
1874 – Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot – Harbor in the Port of Fecamp

Les Petites-Dalles

The hamlet of Les Petites-Dalles lies a few villages to the North of Fecamp along the coast. It is a small but popular resort village. Many famous people (Gustave Eiffel, Jules Verne, Claude Monet, Brad Pitt) have stayed here. And yes, there is a Les Grandes-Dalles a little further towards Fecamp but less popular.

1873 - Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot - The Beach at Petit-Dalles
1873 – Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot – The Beach at Petit-Dalles

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):

Fecamp is a picturesque fishing town which made for a great backdrop for many artist. Here are all the artists who applied their arts in the town and its surroundings (a link “” will appear when we have published an article on this artist’s works in Fecamp):

NOTE: a “*” besides the artist’s name indicates that the artist did NOT work directly in Fecamp, instead worked in Fecamp’s surroundings only.

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