![]() ![]() Morisot’s recorded output of 423 paintings included 247 figure paintings, 47 portraits and 98 landscapes. She showed work with respected dealers and exhibited in seven of the eight exhibitions organized by the Impressionists. Berthe Morisot was in the center of Paris’ circle of ambitious painters and writers. Manet, mother of the painter Édouard and his brothers, Gustave and Eugène, and after Edma married, the Morisots began holding their own weekly salons. They attended the weekly salon held by Mme. They studied privately with several painters, including Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, and had work accepted in the Paris Salon. The artist and her sister Edma had traditional training for non-academic artists of the period. Morisot was from an haute bourgeois family that, unusually, encouraged its daughters’ art education and Berthe’s desire to be a serious painter. I discovered an artist whose ongoing concern was with painting itself, and who pushed the possibilities of paint further than any of her contemporaries – so far that some of her brushwork and incorporation of accidental drips of liquid paint look like painting of the 1940s-50s. But I was asking the wrong questions of them, and Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist at the Barnes Foundation was a revelation. I had seen a small number of her paintings, one at a time in one museum or another and found them indefinite, lacking compelling focus. Oil on fabric, Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1950.89. ![]()
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