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The two sisters were close in their youth, supporting and constructively critiquing each other as they developed as painters. "In her crucial, formative years," Berthe "depended most of all on her sister. Behind Berthe Morisot was Edma Morisot." [2] A portrait of Berthe by Edma, from 1863, is probably the earliest surviving picture of Berthe. [2]
Berthe Morisot, Portrait de Mme Morisot et de sa fille Mme Pontillon ou La lecture (The Mother and Sister of the Artist – Marie-Joséphine & Edma) 1869/70 Morisot was born January 14, 1841, [5] in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family.
The painting depicts Berthe Morisot's mother, Marie-Joséphine, and her favourite sister, Edma Pontillon. Since the beginning of their artistic career, the two sisters had learned their art together. However, in 1869 her sister got married and gave up painting at the insistence of her husband. In this painting, Edma was pregnant with her first ...
It depicts fellow painter Berthe Morisot dressed in black mourning dress, with a barely visible bouquet of violets. The painting, sometimes known as Portrait of Berthe Morisot, Berthe Morisot in a black hat or Young woman in a black hat, is in the collection of the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. Manet also created an etching and two lithographs of ...
Author: National Gallery of Art: Image title: Berthe Morisot (French, 1841 - 1895), The Sisters, 1869, oil on canvas, Gift of Mrs. Charles S. Carstairs 1952.9.2
Morisot accentuates this technique by having her sister pose in an essentially white outfit. The integration of a female figure (like her other relatives, her sister, her niece, or her daughter Julie on other canvases) with a vaporous and silvery landscape as a background, and highlighting their freshness, is a usual theme of Morrisot, which is ...
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