Berthe Morisot valuation
Founding Impressionist who painted women, children and gardens with a fast, feathery brush.
Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges in 1841; her family moved to Paris in 1852, and she and her sister Edma studied privately, copying in the Louvre from 1858 and then working with Camille Corot.
What a work by Berthe Morisot is worth
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Bio
Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges in 1841; her family moved to Paris in 1852, and she and her sister Edma studied privately, copying in the Louvre from 1858 and then working with Camille Corot. She exhibited at the Salon from 1864, but in 1874 joined the first Impressionist exhibition and showed in all but one of the eight, missing only 1879, after the birth of her daughter Julie. In 1874 she married Eugène Manet, the brother of Édouard, who painted her many times. Her subjects were the women and children of her own household, interiors, gardens and harbours, painted in oil, pastel and watercolour with a quick, open touch. She died in Paris in 1895 of pneumonia caught while nursing Julie.
Morisot's output was modest and much of it passed through her family, through Julie Manet and her descendants, so provenance is often traceable. Oils, pastels, watercolours and drawings all appear, and the catalogue raisonné by Marie-Louise Bataille and Georges Wildenstein is the reference.
Corot, the Manets and the Musée Marmottan
Her work hung in the first Impressionist exhibition, at the photographer Nadar's former studio in 1874, and in 1877 the critic of Le Temps called her the one real Impressionist in the group.
The Musée Marmottan Monet in Paris holds the largest collection of her work, much of it given by Julie Manet's family.
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