Berthe Morisot, 1841-1895, catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre peint (book)

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Berthe Morisot, Catalogue Raisonné de l’oeuvre Peint (book) by Alain Clairet, Delphine Montalant, Yves Rouart. With the collaboration of Waring Hopkins and Alain Thomas. As new condition. 1998. 371 pages. Hardcover. Size 31 x 25 x 4 cm. 2.630 kg. Bilingual French/English.

Berthe Morisot was born on January 14, 1841 in Bourges. Born into an upper-class family, she was one of the great-grandchildren of the great painter, Jean Honoré Fragonard. In 1852, the Morisot family settled in Paris. From then on, she acquired knowledge of painting from the age of 16. She imitated the masterpieces of the Louvre. This is how she met the painter Fantin Latour. And through the latter, she also met Édouard Manet, a great painter whose pictorial works were inspired by the impressionist movement.

In 1865, she exhibited her landscape paintings at the official salon for two years. In 1868, she completely abandoned the official salon and joined the independents, the future impressionists whose leaders were Monet, Sisley and Renoir who exhibited their pictorial works at the same time. The name of their association was: “Artistes Anonymes Associés” and its inauguration dates from April 15, 1875.

Her pictorial technique and her taste for fine arts are mainly reflected in the landscapes and especially in the paintings of the family environment. With the help of the great minds of painting, she improved her works by making the tones less dark while releasing a liberal inspiration in a stricter way. One of her very exceptional paintings is “The Cradle” dated 1872 at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris. This painting demonstrates her skill in shading lightness and transparency while representing femininity.

In 1874, at the age of 38, Berthe Morisot married Eugène Manet, who was none other than Édouard Manet’s brother, and five years later, she gave birth to a little girl, Julie Manet. In 1892, Eugène Manet died before the first exhibition of Berthe Morisot’s personal works, for the first time at the Boussod gallery and in Valadon.

Previously, they had mutually decided to entrust the artistic education of their offspring to the poet Stéphane Mallarmé and the painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In March 1895, Berthe Morisot contracted pneumonia and died in turn. She is one of the female painters who exhibited her paintings with the great impressionist painter, Camille Pissarro. She is the painter whose works are always presented at the exhibition of impressionist painters.

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