Inventing Impressionism

Art historian Jacky Klein explores the story of this gifted female Impressionist painter in this video from ArtFundUK.

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 Morisot’s Early Life and Education

Morisot was born in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot, was the prefect of the department of Cher. He also studied architecture at École des Beaux Arts. Her mother, Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas, was the great-niece of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime. She… Continue reading Berthe Morisot’s Early Life and Education