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Morisot was born in Bourges, Cher, France into a successful bourgeois family who encouraged her and her sister Edna Morisot in their exploration of art and, once Berthe settled on pursuing art seriously, did not impede her career.

By the time she was 20, she had met and befriended the important landscape painter of the Barbizon school Camille Corot, who introduced her to other artists and teachers. She took up plein air techniques at about this time - painting small paintings entirely outdoors either as finished works or as studies for slightly larger works completed in the studio.

Morisot's first acceptance for the Salon came in 1864 with 2 landscape paintings, and continued to show regularly in the Salon until 1874, the year of the first Impressionist exhibition.

She was acquainted with Edouard Manet from 1868Events January 3 Meiji Emperor declares " Meiji Restoration", his own restoration to full power, against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogunate. January 10 Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu declares emperor's declaration "illegal" and attacks Kyoto. Pro-Emperor, and in 1874 she married Eugene Manet, Edouard's younger brother. She managed to convince Manet to attempt some plein air painting and drew him into the circle of acquaintaince of the painters who became known as the Impressionists. However, he never considered himself an Impressionist or agreed to show with the group. Morisot, on the other hand, was, along with Camille PissarroCamille Pissarro ( July 10 1830 November 1903) was a French impressionist painter. Camille Pissarro was born in St. Thomas, in what is now the U. Virgin Islands on July 10, 1830. He moved to Paris, France in 1855 and studied there with the French landscap, one of the only 2 artists who showed in all of the original Impressionist shows.

Like Mary CassattMary Stevenson Cassatt ( May 22, 1843 June 14, 1926) was an American painter. Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, which is now part of Pittsburgh, she was the daughter of a well-do-to businessman. She was raised in an environment that greatly valued edu, in her own lifetime Berthe Morisot was also recently relegated to the category of "feminine" artists because of their usual subject matter - women, children, and domestic scenes. However, as a doctrinaire Impressionist, Morisot strove to paint what she saw in her immediate, everyday life. As an woman securely in the haute bourgeoisie she saw domestic interiors, holiday spots, other women, and children. Her subject matter is, without exception, the personal equivalent of that of her Impressionist colleagues. Edgar DegasEdgar Degas ( July 19, 1834 September 27, 1917) was a French painter and sculptor. Born Edgar Hilaire Germain de Gas in Paris, France, he was the oldest of five children. Madame de Gas belonged to a French family that settled in America. Degas was fond of, the dandy male bourgeois, painted rehearsals of the Ballet, horse races, and nude women in apartments (rather than studios). Claude MonetOscar-Claude Monet ( November 14, 1840 December 5, 1926), French impressionist painter. Claude Monet Monet was born in Paris, France. His family moved to Le Havre in Normandy when he was six. His father wanted him to go into the family grocery store busin painted his garden, his children, and his neighbor's haystacks. The female Impressionists painted their social milieu in a way consistent with the Impressionist approach to subject matter.

Berthe Morisot died in ParisEiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. Paris is the capital and largest city of France. The city is built on an arc of the River Seine, and is thus divided into two parts: the Right Bank to the north and the smaller Left Bank to and was interred in the Cimetière de PassyThe Cimetiere de Passy is a famous cemetery located in 2, rue du Commandant Schoelsing, in the quarter of Passy in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, France. In the early 19th century, several new cemeteries replaced all the Parisian ones. Outside the prec.

Today, her paintings can sell for more than US$4 million.