Art historian Jacky Klein explores the story of this gifted female Impressionist painter in this video from ArtFundUK.
Category: Art
“Le féminisme en art”: Berthe Morisot
Morisot’s Importance in the Impressionist Movement
Berthe Morisot, “Woman Impressionist,” Emerges from the Margins. Morisot is a visual poet of womanhood like perhaps no other painter before or since, with a comprehension of female experience that is at least equal in force to the combined delectations of women by her male peers. Peter Schjeldahl
Berthe’s daughter, Julie Manet
Throughout her lifetime, Berthe created many paintings of her daughter, Julie Manet. She painted Julie during many periods of her daughter’s life, up until Marisot’s death in 1895.
Paintings of Julie sometimes caught her in the act of playing as a child, portraits, and even a painting of her playing violin.
Julie herself grew up to be a painter, model, diarist, and art collector.