Renoir, Degas, Monet, Manet -- these were the leaders of the artistic movement that became known as Impressionism. Berthe Morisot is a less familiar name, yet she was one of the painters whose works ...

The French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot has long been overshadowed in art history by male contemporaries such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. But at long last, Morisot ...

For years, we have known Berthe Morisot-if we have known her at all-through the work of other artists. Edouard Manet had just met her in 1868 when he asked her to sit for him. The result was ”The ...

A young woman prepares for her first grown-up ball, her expression one of excitement tinged with wistful melancholy, too. A girl eagerly reads a fairytale to her nurse, but the nurse’s dreamy features ...

This exhibition highlights Berthe Morisot’s approach to portraiture, her focus on the life of women in modern Paris, and her singular role in the French Impressionist movement. Following the recent, ...

At Wednesday’s Impressionist and Modern evening sale at Christie’s London, a new world record was set for a female artist Berthe Morisot, ‘Après le déjeuner,’ 1881. (Courtesy Christie’s) At ...

On “Berthe Morisot and the Art of the Eighteenth Century” at Musée Marmottan Monet. The exhibition, a joint effort with London’s Dulwich Picture Gallery, is a double attraction. In addition to ...