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This winter, the Marmottan Monet Museum invites the first female impressio- nist, Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), for a unique exhibition.
Attention is focused on the links that unite her work with the Rococco heritage of 18th century painters, in particular Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard and Perrenneau.
Less known than her impressionist counterparts, despite her presence in seven of the eight exhibitions of the genre, it was only from the 2000s that several monographic exhibitions were dedicated to her.
Exhibitions, first in Lille, in Marigny, at the Marmottan Monet Museum in 2012, at the Gare d’Orsay in 2019, without forgetting the one dedicated in 2021 to Julie Manet, her daughter, on the occasion of which she was safely present.
The Marmottan Monet Museum’s presentation was produced in partnership with the Dulwich Picture Gallery in London, where the first retrospective in the United Kingdom for more than fifty years has just ended.
Coming from a wealthy upper-middle-class family, Berthe Morisot had the opportu- nity with her older sister Edma to have artistic training, to be at the Louvre to make copies and to participate in the weekly receptions held by her mother. It was on this social occasion that she met Corot. Married to Eugène Manet, brother of Edouard, friend and colleague with whom she maintained a close artistic relationship throu- ghout her life, she was an essential figure of the Parisian avant-gardes, from the end of the 1860s until her death in 1895.
Berthe MORISOT (1841-1895)
Little girl in basket (Cocotte) 1891
Pastel on paper 58 x 41 cm
Paris, Musée Marmottan Monet © musée Marmottan Monet