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Home » Sketchbook: Berthe Morisot

Sketchbook: Berthe Morisot

Filed Under: Creative Life, Illustrations & Sketches, Inspiration

Sketch of mother & daughter at the Berthe Morisot exhibit at the Barnes Foundation - Beverly Brown Artist - beverlybrown.com
A mother and daughter admire a Berthe Morisot painting at the Barnes Foundation – Beverly Brown

I’ve always been a fan of Berthe Morisot, one of the founding members of the Impressionists and an all-around inspiring woman. When I heard there would be an exhibit of her work at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, I immediately made plans to go. Morisot’s painting style always seems looser and fresher to me than her male colleagues. As a young person, Morisot studied with Camille Corot. She later met the painter Édouard Manet and joined the Parisian avant-garde. She married Manet’s brother, Eugene, who was also a painter (of lesser talent than his brother). In an unusual arrangement for the time, Eugene stopped painting to support Berthe in her painting career. As a working woman and mother, Morisot’s paintings were inspired by contemporary women of her time. Her daughter (& daughter’s caretakers) and fashionable Parisiennes were frequent subjects. The exhibit at the Barnes is now closed, but you can still see it when it travels to the Dallas Museum of Art (February 24-May 26, 2019) and the Musée D’Orsay in Paris June 18th-September 22, 2019). The sketch above is part of my ongoing looking at art series, observing museum and gallery visitors as they interact with art.

Berthe Morisot lithograph portrait by Édouard Manet
Portrait of Berthe Morisot by Édouard Manet (lithograph) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
Berthe Morisot - Young Woman Knitting (oil painting) - Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Young Woman Knitting” by Berthe Morisot (oil painting) – Metropolitan Museum of Art
"A Woman Seated at a Bench on the Avenue du Bois" by Berthe Morisot (watercolor) - Metropolitan Museum of Art
“A Woman Seated at a Bench on the Avenue du Bois” by Berthe Morisot (watercolor) – Metropolitan Museum of Art

By: Beverly · In: Creative Life, Illustrations & Sketches, Inspiration · Tagged: looking at art, sketchbook, women

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