100 Great Artists

1841

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1 860-62

1864

1868

1874

187 4- 86

1878

188 1_8J

1892

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BERTHE MORISOT

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Salon

Tnn-,/J in Spain

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in Pari,

Young \\'o"",n Powdering Her Face (<<tail) (1877)

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</,11< g"""' ""'" Imp",,,,,,;,, '"'" bad aband",,,d "'_pi", birrory

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I'ic:in air or ,;.'i,bin a hGllrgrol' Il(,,"m;, "'ring. San" from "~ryd"1lifr

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<T'he ,\Iori,." l>roduttd n,,::r 300

I"intings. Their prinrip"l subjectS arc

"omcn and children: .nd • large

1''''llOnion of them 1i:: .. urc htT siSltTS and their

f"mi~es, or her own ,bughlcr, Julic, ",h,. " she

regularlr rtt'J<,bl. IT,. " 'he 1",1".-in II;', ,\'un,

to the ,,~,Ies"'-"Jlt in ]u/i, Dayrlru.ming.

Mori,o,'s own ,mther waS ""I)(""ihle ~"

fc.;tering the .. I""IS of hcr artistic ,bughtclS,

ncr,he .nd Edme. T heir tutor ",as the

land",ap'st Corm, who encourag .... J them n,

",ork '" pI,in air and make p'inting trips "'""J'

lTom Paris. Summcr 1861 ~'und the whole

familr riding mulcs through the Pyrcnees

hec:tu", Ikrthe and Edmc ",uld not g"

unchapell","!, T hcir fatocr _ • highlr p.id

gmemmcnt offici.1 _ ",en built. stu,Go in

the If'lllcn Ii:Jt thcn~ and oc "".I his "ih:: frequL"Jldr

rntCrt:ti""d I",inll:rs,.,d mu<itia", at their h,. ,,,,.

Morisot bt'C'me grc:ttlr attracted to

Edm"'nl "''''net. lie indu,k:d her in his 1869

Salon picture Tb, Sa/rolly, btt.me hcr mentor

and, ","entu.llr, her brother·in·!'",. On""

ma"i"j to Eug(,"" ,\ bnL~, ,\ loris,. "',,-"ructL,j