프랑스 여류화가 Berthe Morisot(1841-1895)

Berthe Morisot, French painter and printmaker. She was associated with Impressionism. She was born in Bourges, the daughter of a government official who was an enthusiastic amateur painter and supporter of the arts. She was also the granddaughter of Fragonard.

She was taught in Paris by Corot (1862-8) under whom she produced delicate landscapes. She was also a friend of Fantin-Latour and met Daubigny sketching in Fontainebleau. In 1868 she met Manet, modelled for him and also became his pupil. Under him she began working plein air (e.g. Artist's Sister and Mother, 1870, Washington DC, National Gallery) and was introduced to the Impressionist circle in Paris. She married Manet's brother in 1874. She was an enthusiastic member of the Impressionist group, exhibiting at seven of their shows and collecting their works. She also achieved some Salon success (exhibiting there during 1864-73).

She experimented with seascapes but her personal style developed most markedly during the 1880s: sketchy, pale colours and subjects from her own experience including women, children and domestic life (e.g. The Cradle, 1873, Paris, Musee d'Orsay) She experimented with pastel and watercolour and continued to paint landscapes (e.g. Villa by the Seaside, 1874, Pasadena, Norton Simon Museum). In her later career her work moved closer to that of Renoir (e.g. The Dining Room, 1886, Washington DC, National Gallery).

Morisot has been reclaimed as one of the forgotten women artists of the 19th century (cf Cassatt) by feminist historians, and as such has achieved greater fame in recent years than she did in her lifetime.

- From "The Bulfinch Guide to Art History"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe
Marine
(The Harbor at Lorient)
1869
Oil on canvas
43.5 x 73 cm (17 1/2 x 28 3/4")
National Gallery of Art, Washington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe
La lecture
Reading
(The Mother and Sister of the Artist)
1869-1870
Oil on canvas
101 x 81.8 cm (39 3/4 x 32 1/4")
National Gallery of Art, Washington

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe
Le berceau
The Cradle
1872
Oil on canvas
56 x 46 cm (22 x 18")
Musee d'Orsay, Paris

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe
Cache-cache
Hide-and-Seek
1873
Oil on canvas
45 x 55 cm (17 3/4 x 21 5/8")
Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe
Portrait de Mademoiselle M.T.
(Young Girl with a Parrot)
c. 1873
Pastel on paper
60 x 49.5 cm (23 5/8 x 19 3/8")
Private collection, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe Un village (Le village de Maurecourt) Pastel on paper 47 x 72 cm (18 1/2 x 28 1/4") Private collection, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe Peasant Hanging out the Washing 1881 Oil on canvas 18 x 26 1/4" (46 x 67 cm) Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe
In the Garden at Maurecourt
c. 1884
Oil on canvas
21 ?x 25 5/8 in. (54 x 65 cm)
The Toledo Museum of Art

 

 

In this painting she depicted the well tended garden of the country estate of her married sister, Edma Pontillon, located at Maurecourt, twenty miles north of Paris. Morisot frequently visited her sister there and in the early 1870s had often painted her with her children in the garden or in the surrounding countryside. After that time Morisot had stopped portraying her, presumably at her sister's request. In a small watercolor of the mid 1880s inscribed "Maurecourt", on which she based this painting, Morisot appears to have depicted Edma, then about forty five years old, but this same figure appears rather younger in the painting. Although any identification of this figure is difficult and tentative, she may conceivably have become one of Edma's daughters (Jeanne, b. 1870, or Blanche, b. 1871), or perhaps the nursemaid of the child to her right, who is, almost certainly, Morisot's own daughter, Julie (b. 1878).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morisot, Berthe La hotte (The Basket-Chair) 1885 Oil on canvas 24 1/8 x 29 3/4 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

 

 

 

 

 

Oil  on Canvas
Completed in 1894
Original dimensions: 54.6cm x 66.0cm (21.5in x 26.0in)
Original Painting held in Phillips Collection , Washington, DC  USA