She had three: Yves, Edma (Berthe's older sister), and Tiburce.
Lots of very famous artists lived in the 1800s. Degas, Renoir, Cassatt, Gauguin, Cezanne, Manet, Monet.
Degas is famous for his fascination with ballerinas, and Renoir has painted many famous painting including "Young Girls at the Piano". Mary Cassatt's pieces are almost all centered on women. Gauguin's artwork is very unique, because the people in his paintings were black. Cezanne and Manet are both famous, and lots of Monet's pieces have beautiful water lilies from his garden in them.
The 1800s was a very good time for art.
Her paternal grandfather was a civil servant, his name does not seem yo be known today.
Her maternal grandfather, M Thomas, was a highranking civil servant in the Finance Ministry.
There was a family tradition that the Thomas family was related to Fragonard, the painter.
They visited an exhibition of Japanese prints together. This did not lead to Morisot making prints, but gave her an interest in nude painting. Cassatt, on the other hand, became very interested int the print technique.
Yes.
She took part in the first impressionist exhibition in 1874.
Like most artists she used brushes and oil paint, painting on canvases.
She did not become known through one single painting, that is seldom the case. One of the first to attract attention was The Cradle.
No, after moving to Paris she never had another home.
Click link below. It is one of the paintings you can see there.
Berthe Morisot was born on January 14, 1841 and died on March 2, 1895. Berthe Morisot would have been 54 years old at the time of death or 174 years old today.