Editing Berthe Morisot (section)

==Personal life==
Morisot came from an eminent family, the daughter of a senior government official and the great-niece of Rococo artist [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]].<ref>{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Berthe-Morisot|title=Berthe Morisot {{!}} French painter|encyclopedia=Encyclopædia Britannica|access-date=29 March 2018}}</ref> [[Henri Fantin-Latour]], a fellow artist, introduced Morisot to [[Edouard Manet]] in 1868. She became his longtime friend and colleague, and she married his brother, [[Eugène Manet]], in 1874. On 14 November 1878, she gave birth to her only child, [[Julie Manet|Julie]], who posed frequently for her mother and other Impressionist artists, including [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]] and her uncle Édouard.

Correspondence between Morisot and Édouard Manet shows warm affection, and Manet gave her an easel as a Christmas present. Morisot often posed for Manet and there are several portrait paintings of Morisot such as ''[[Repose (painting)|Repose (Portrait of Berthe Morisot)]]'' and ''[[Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Impressionism|last=Brodskaya |first=Nathalia |isbn=9781780428017|location=New York|oclc=778448857}}</ref> Morisot died on 2 March 1895, in Paris, of [[pneumonia]] contracted while attending to her daughter Julie's similar illness, thus making Julie an orphan at the age of 16. The day before she died, Berthe wrote to Julie: {{quote|My little Julie, I love you as I die; I shall still love you when I am dead; I beg you not to cry, this parting was inevitable. I hoped to live until you were married ... Work and be good as you have always been; you have not caused me one sorrow in your little life. You have beauty, money; make good use of them ... Please give a remembrance to your Aunt Edma and to your cousins ...<ref>Barnes, Julian. "The Morisot Sisters"; also quoted in Higonnet, Anne. ''Berthe Morisot'', p. 221.</ref>}} Berthe Morisot was interred in the [[Cimetière de Passy]].<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|editor=Commire, Anne|title=Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia|volume=11|year=2001|publisher=Yorkin Publications, Gale Group|location=Waterford|isbn=978-0-78764-070-5|page=448}}</ref>

It has been speculated that there was a repressed love between Manet and Morisot, exemplified by the numerous portraits he did of her before she married his brother.<ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.marmottan.fr/expositions/morisot-sacriste/
| title=MORISOT / SACRISTE
| date=2023
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231215081820/https://www.marmottan.fr/expositions/morisot-sacriste/
| archive-date=15 December 2023
| publisher=[[Musée Marmottan Monet]]
| access-date=15 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
| url=https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2023/10/18/berthe-morisot-par-edouard-manet-le-desir-en-peinture_6195133_4500055.html
| title=Berthe Morisot par Edouard Manet, le désir en peinture
| date=18 October 2023
| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018083328/https://www.lemonde.fr/m-le-mag/article/2023/10/18/berthe-morisot-par-edouard-manet-le-desir-en-peinture_6195133_4500055.html
| archive-date=18 October 2023
| quote=Tous les portraits de Berthe Morisot par Manet sont magnifiques, pleins de son amour pour celle qui avait épousé son frère Eugène. Ils disent un désir qui n'a pu s'exprimer et c'est autour de cette part manquante que j'ai imaginé mon exposition.
| publisher=[[Le Monde]]
| access-date=18 October 2023}}</ref>