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Berthe Morisot

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Profession
Painter
Died
Mar 2, 1895
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
France
About
A prominent member of the nineteenth-century French Impressionist movement, Morisot is particularly remembered for her masterwork The Cradle (1872). Her other major works include Reading (1873), Lady at her Toilette (1875), On the Balcony (1872), and Summer Day (1879).
Family
One of four children born to Edme Tiburce Morisot and Marie-Josephine-Cornelie Thomas, she had a privileged upbringing in Bourges and Paris, France. From the mid-1870s until his death in the early 1890s, she was married to Eugene Manet; their daughter, Julie, was often the subject of Morisot's artwork.

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