Editing Berthe Morisot

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{{Infobox artist
| name = Berthe Morisot
| image = Morisot berthe photo.jpg
| caption = Berthe Morisot
| birth_name = Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot
| birth_date = {{birth date|1841|1|14|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Bourges]], [[Cher (département)|Cher]], France
| death_date = {{death date and age|1895|3|2|1841|1|14|df=y}}
| death_place = Paris, France
| resting_place = [[Cimetière de Passy]]
| field = Painting
| training = 
| notable_works = {{bulleted|''[[Summer's Day]]|''The Cradle''|''View of Paris from the Trocadero''|''After Lunch''}}
| movement = [[Impressionism]]
| works = 
| spouse = {{marriage|[[Eugène Manet]]|1874|1892|end=d.}}
}}
'''Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot''' ({{IPA|fr|bɛʁt mɔʁizo|lang}}; 14 January 1841&nbsp;– 2 March 1895) was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the [[Impressionists]].

In 1864, Morisot exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed [[Paris Salon|Salon de Paris]]. Sponsored by the government and judged by [[Academician]]s, the Salon was the official, annual [[art exhibition|exhibition]] of the {{lang|fr|[[Académie des beaux-arts]]|italic=no}} in Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons<ref>Denvir, 2000, pp. 29–79.</ref> until, in 1874, she joined the ''"rejected"'' Impressionists in the [[First Impressionist Exhibition|first of their own exhibitions]] (15 April – 15 May 1874), which included [[Paul Cézanne]], [[Edgar Degas]], [[Claude Monet]], [[Camille Pissarro]], [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]] and [[Alfred Sisley]]. It was held at the [[studio]] of the photographer [[Nadar (photographer)|Nadar]]. Morisot went on to participate in all but one of the following eight impressionist exhibitions, between 1874 and 1886.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Solomon|first=Tessa|date=27 July 2020|title=The Women of Impressionism: Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, and Other Pioneering Figures Who Shaped the Movement|url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/who-are-the-most-important-female-impressionist-artists-1202695284/|access-date=29 July 2020|website=ARTnews.com|language=en-US}}</ref>

Morisot was married to [[Eugène Manet]], the brother of her friend and colleague [[Édouard Manet]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=Hazel|date=7 January 2019|title=Berthe Morisot and Édouard Manet: Painters in Paris|url=https://www.francetoday.com/learn/history/berthe-morisot-and-edouard-manet/|access-date=4 October 2021|website=France Today|language=en-US}}</ref>

She was described by art critic [[Gustave Geffroy]] in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" (The three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside [[Marie Bracquemond]] and [[Mary Cassatt]].<ref>{{Citation|last=Geffroy|first=Gustave|title=Histoire de l'Impressionnisme|journal=Le Vie Artistique|pages=268|year=1894}}.</ref>

== Early life ==
[[File:Berthe Morisot 006.jpg|thumb|250px|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 14 January 1841,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Berthe Morisot {{!}} Biography, Art, Paintings, & Facts|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Berthe-Morisot|access-date=9 July 2021|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|language=en}}</ref> in [[Bourges]], France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot, was the [[prefect]] (senior administrator) of the [[Departments of France|department]] of [[Cher (département)|Cher]]. He also studied architecture at [[École des Beaux-Arts|École des Beaux Arts]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Berthe Morisot|last=Adler|first=Kathleen|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1987|isbn=0801420539|location=Ithaca, New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00adle/page/9 9]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00adle/page/9}}</ref> Her mother, Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas, was the great-niece of [[Jean-Honoré Fragonard]], one of the most prolific [[Rococo]] painters of the [[ancien régime]].<ref>Higonnet, p. 5</ref> She had two older sisters, Yves (1838–1893) and [[Edma Morisot|Edma]] (1839–1921), plus a younger brother, Tiburce, born in 1848. The family moved to Paris in 1852, when Morisot was a child.

It was commonplace for daughters of bourgeois families to receive art education, so Berthe and her sisters Yves and Edma were taught privately by Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne and [[Joseph Guichard]]. Morisot and her sisters initially started taking lessons so that they could each make a drawing for their father for his birthday.<ref name=":0" /> In 1857 Guichard, who ran a school for girls in Rue des Moulins, introduced Berthe and Edma to the [[Louvre]] gallery where from 1858 they learned by copying paintings. The Morisots were not only forbidden to work at the museum unchaperoned, but they were also totally barred from formal training.<ref name="Harmon, Melissa Burdick 2001, p. 98">Harmon, Melissa Burdick. "Monet, Renoir, Degas...Morisot the Forgotten Genius of Impressionism." ''Biography'', vol. 5, no. 6, June 2001, p. 98. EBSCO''host''</ref> Guichard also introduced them to the works of [[Gavarni]].<ref name="Higonet" />

As art students, Berthe and Edma worked closely together until 1869, when Edma married Adolphe Pontillon, a naval officer, moved to [[Cherbourg-en-Cotentin|Cherbourg]], and had less time to paint. Letters between the sisters show a loving relationship, underscored by Berthe's regret at the distance between them and Edma's withdrawal from painting. Edma wholeheartedly supported Berthe's continued work and their families always remained close. Edma wrote ''"... I am often with you in thought, dear Berthe. I'm in your studio and I like to slip away, if only for a quarter of an hour, to breathe that atmosphere that we shared for many years..."''.<ref name="Met Museum"/><ref name="SSL87 16"/><ref name="Women in the Act of Painting">{{cite web| url = http://womenintheactofpainting.blogspot.fr/2012/11/edma-and-berthe.html| title = Women in the Act of Painting, 9 November 2012, Edma and Berthe by Nancy Bea Miller| date = 9 November 2012}}</ref>

Her sister Yves married Théodore Gobillard, a tax inspector, in 1866 and was painted by [[Edgar Degas]] as ''Madame Théodore Gobillard'' ([[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York City).<ref name="Met Museum">{{cite web| url = https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436149| title = Yves peinte par Degas}}</ref><ref name="SSL87 16">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=16|id=SSL87}}</ref><ref name="Higonnet">{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZrK2juMan0C&pg=PA32| title = ''Berthe Morisot'' by Anne Higonnet, Berthe Morisot, at Google Books. Page 32| isbn = 9780520201569| last1 = Higonnet| first1 = Anne| date = 8 June 1995| publisher = University of California Press}}</ref>

As a [[copyist]] at the Louvre, Morisot met and befriended other artists such as Manet and Monet.<ref name="Harmon, Melissa Burdick 2001, p. 98"/> In 1861 she was introduced to [[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]], the pivotal landscape painter of the [[Barbizon school]] who also excelled in figure painting. Under Corot's influence, she took up the [[plein air]] (outdoors) method of working.<ref>Garb, T.  (2003). "Morisot, Berthe(-Marie-Pauline)". Grove Art Online.</ref> By 1863 she was studying under {{ill|Achille Oudinot|fr}}, another Barbizon painter. In the winter of 1863–64 she studied sculpture under [[Aimé Millet]], but none of her sculptures is known to survive.<ref name="Higonet">{{cite book|last1=Higonnet|first1=Anne|title=Berthe Morisot|date=1990|publisher=Harper & Row, Publishers|location=New York|isbn=0-06-016232-5|pages=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/11 11–25]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/11}}</ref>

== Main periods of Morisot's work ==

=== Training, 1857–1870 ===
It is hard to trace the stages of Morisot's training and to tell the exact influence of her teachers because she was never pleased with her work and she destroyed nearly all of the artworks she produced before 1869. Her first teacher, Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne, taught her the basics of drawing. After several months, Morisot began to take classes taught by Guichard. During this period, she drew mostly ancient classical figures. When Morisot expressed her interests in [[En plein air|plein-air]] painting, Guichard sent her to follow Corot and Oudinot. Painting outdoors, she used watercolors which are easy to carry. At that time, Morisot also became interested in pastel.<ref name="auto">{{Cite book|title=Berthe Morisot : 1841–1895|author1=Mathieu, Marianne|author2=Musée Marmottan|isbn=9780300182019|location=Paris|oclc=830199379|year = 2012}}</ref>

=== Watercolorist, 1870–1874 ===
During this period, Morisot still found oil painting difficult, and worked mostly in watercolor. Her choice of colors is rather restrained; however, the delicate repetition of hues renders a balanced effect. Due to specific characteristics of watercolors as a medium, Morisot was able to create a translucent atmosphere and feathery touch, which contribute to the freshness in her paintings.<ref name="auto"/>

=== Impressionism, 1875–1885 ===
Having become more confident about oil painting, Morisot worked in oil, watercolor and pastel at the same time, as Degas did. She painted very quickly but did much sketching as preparation, so she could paint "a mouth, eyes, and a nose with a single brushstroke."  She made countless studies of her subjects, which were drawn from her life so she became quite familiar with them. When it became inconvenient to paint outdoors, the highly finished watercolors done in the preparatory stages allowed her to continue painting indoors later.<ref name="auto"/>

=== Turning, 1885–1887 ===
After 1885, drawing began to dominate in Morisot's works. Morisot actively experimented with charcoals and color pencils. Her reviving interest in drawing was motivated by her Impressionist friends, who are known for blurring forms. Morisot put her emphasis on the clarification of the form and lines during this period. In addition, she was influenced by photography and [[Japonism]]e. She adopted the style of placing objects away from the center of the composition from Japanese prints of the time.<ref name="auto"/>

=== Synthesis, 1887–1895 ===
Morisot started to use the technique of squaring and the medium of tracing paper to transcribe her drawing to the canvas exactly. By employing this new method, Morisot was able to create compositions with more complicated interaction between figures. She stressed the composition and the forms while her Impressionist brushstrokes still remained. Her original synthesis of the Impressionist touch with broad strokes and light reflections, and the graphic approach featured by clear lines, made her late works distinctive.<ref name="auto"/>

== Style and technique ==
Because she was a female artist, Morisot's paintings were often labeled as being full of "feminine charm" by male critics, for their elegance and lightness. In 1890, Morisot wrote in a notebook about her struggles to be taken seriously as an artist: "I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they." 
Her light brushstrokes often led to critics using the verb "effleurer" (to touch lightly, brush against) to describe her technique. In her early life, Morisot painted in the open air as other Impressionists to look for truths in observation.<ref name="Dominique. 2010">{{Cite book|title=Berthe Morisot|last=Dominique.|first=Rey, Jean|date=2010|publisher=Flammarion|others=Patry, Sylvie., Morisot, Berthe, 1841–1895., Lalaurie, Louise Rogers.|isbn=9782080301680|location=Paris|oclc=646401344}}</ref> Around 1880 she began painting on unprimed canvases—a technique Manet and [[Eva Gonzalès]] also experimented with at the time<ref>[http://nmwa.org/works/cage National Museum of Women in the Arts: "The Cage"]. Retrieved 24 November 2014.</ref>—and her brushwork became looser. In 1888–89, her brushstrokes transitioned from short, rapid strokes to long, sinuous ones that define form.<ref>{{cite book|title=Berthe Morisot, Drawings Pastels, Watercolors|last1=Mongan|first1=Elizabeth|date=1960|publisher=Shorewood Publishing Co.|location=New York|page=20}}</ref> The outer edges of her paintings were often left unfinished, allowing the canvas to show through and increasing the sense of spontaneity. After 1885, she worked mostly from preliminary drawings before beginning her oil paintings.<ref name="Charles F., William P.">{{cite book|title=Berthe Morisot: Impressionist|last1=Stuckey|first1=Charles F.|last2=Scott|first2=William P.|date=1987|publisher=Hudson Hills Press|isbn=0-933920-03-2|location=New York|pages=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisotimp00char/page/187 187–207]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisotimp00char/page/187|ref=CITEREFStuckey,_Scott_Lindsay}}</ref> She often worked in oil paint, watercolors, and pastel simultaneously, and sketched using various drawing media. Morisot's works are almost always small in scale.

Morisot creates a sense of space and depth through the use of color. Although her color palette was somewhat limited, her fellow impressionists regarded her as a "virtuoso colorist".<ref name="Charles F., William P." /> She typically made expansive use of white to create a sense of transparency, whether used as a pure white or mixed with other colors. In her large painting ''The Cherry Tree'', the colors are more vivid but still emphasize the form.<ref name="Charles F., William P." />

Inspired by Manet's drawings, she kept the use of color to a minimum when constructing a motif. Responding to the experiments conducted by Manet and [[Edgar Degas]], Morisot used barely tinted whites to harmonize the paintings. Like Degas, she played with three media simultaneously in one painting: watercolor, pastel, and oil paints. In the second half of her career, she learned from [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]] by mimicking his motifs.<ref name="Dominique. 2010"/> She also shared an interest in keeping a balance between the density of figures and the atmospheric traits of light with Renoir in her later works.<ref name="auto"/>

== Subjects ==
[[File:Jeune Fille au Manteau Vert by Berthe Morisot.jpg|thumb|''Jeune Fille au Manteau Vert'', oil on canvas, c. 1894]]
Morisot painted what she experienced on a daily basis. Most of her paintings include domestic scenes of family, children, ladies, and flowers, depicting what women's life was like in the late nineteenth century. Instead of portraying the public space and society, Morisot preferred private, intimate scenes.<ref name="Dominique. 2010"/> This reflects the cultural restrictions of her class and gender at that time. Like her fellow Impressionist [[Mary Cassatt]], she focused on domestic life and portraits in which she could use family and personal friends as models, including her daughter Julie and sister Edma. The stenographic presentation of her daily life conveys a strong hope to stop the fleeting passage of time.<ref name="Dominique. 2010"/> By portraying flowers, she used metaphors to celebrate womanhood.<ref name="auto"/> Prior to the 1860s, Morisot painted subjects in line with the Barbizon school before turning to scenes of contemporary femininity.<ref>{{cite book|title=Berthe Morisot|last1=Higonnet|first1=Anne|date=1990|publisher=Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.|isbn=0-06-016232-5|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/26 26]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/26}}</ref> Paintings like ''The Cradle'' (1872), in which she depicted current trends for nursery furniture, reflect her sensitivity to fashion and advertising, both of which would have been apparent to her female audience. Her works also include landscapes, garden settings, boating scenes, and themes of boredom or [[ennui]].<ref name="Dominique. 2010"/> Later in her career Morisot worked with more ambitious themes, such as nudes.<ref>{{cite book|title=Berthe Morisot|last1=Higonnet|first1=Anne|date=1990|publisher=Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.|isbn=0-06-016232-5|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/102 102]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/102}}</ref> In her late works, she often referred to the past to recall a memory from her earlier life and youth, and her departed companions.<ref name="Dominique. 2010"/>

== Impressionism ==
[[File:Berthe Morisot 005.jpg|thumb|250px|left|''Grain field'', c. 1875, [[Musée d'Orsay]]]]

Morisot's first appearance in the [[Salon (Paris)|Salon de Paris]] came at the age of twenty-three in 1864, with the acceptance of two [[landscape art|landscape]] paintings. She continued to show regularly in the Salon, to generally favorable reviews, until 1873, the year before the [[First Impressionist Exhibition]]. She exhibited with the Impressionists from 1874 onwards, only missing the exhibition in 1879 when her daughter Julie was born.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chadwick|first1=Whitney|title=Women, Art, and Society|date=2012|publisher=Thames & Hudson Inc.|location=London|isbn=978-0-500-20405-4|page=253|edition=Fifth }}</ref>

Impressionism's alleged attachment to brilliant color, sensual surface effects, and fleeting sensory perceptions led a number of critics to assert in retrospect that this style, once primarily the battlefield of insouciant, combative males, was inherently feminine and best suited to women's weaker temperaments, lesser intellectual capabilities, and greater sensibility.<ref>Lewis, M.T. "Book Reviews: Berthe Morisot." ''Art Journal'', vol. 50, no. 3, Fall91, p. 92. EBSCO''host'',</ref>

During Morisot's 1874 exhibition with the Impressionists, such as Monet and Manet, Le Figaro critic Albert Wolff noted that the Impressionists consisted of "five or six lunatics of which one is a woman...[whose] feminine grace is maintained amid the outpourings of a delirious mind."<ref name="Harmon, Melissa Burdick 2001, p. 98"/>

Morisot's mature career began in 1872. She found an audience for her work with [[Durand-Ruel]], the private dealer, who bought twenty-two paintings. In 1877, she was described by the critic for ''Le Temps'' as the "one real Impressionist in this group."<ref>{{cite book|last1=Chadwick|first1=Whitney|title=Women, Art, and Society|date=2012|publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd.|location=London|isbn=978-0-500-20405-4|page=234|edition=5th}}</ref> She chose to exhibit under her full maiden name instead of using a pseudonym or her married name.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Higonnet|first1=Anne|title=Berthe Morisot|date=1990|publisher=Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-06-016232-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/139 139]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/139}}</ref> As her skill and style improved, many began to rethink their opinion toward Morisot. In the 1880 exhibition, many reviews judged Morisot among the best, even including ''Le Figaro'' critic [[Albert Wolff (journalist)|Albert Wolff]].<ref>{{cite book|last1=Higonnet|first1=Anne|title=Berthe Morisot|date=1990|publisher=Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.|location=New York|isbn=0-06-016232-5|page=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/158 158]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/158}}</ref>

[[File:Edouard Manet - Berthe Morisot With a Bouquet of Violets - Google Art Project.jpg|thumb|[[Édouard Manet]], ''[[Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets]]'' (in mourning for her father), 1872, [[Musée d'Orsay]]]]

==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>

==Works==
[[File:La Coiffure - Berthe Morisot.jpg|thumb|''La Coiffure'', 1894]]

===Selection of works===
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This limited selection is based in part on the book ''Berthe Morisot'' by Charles F. Stuckey, William P. Scott and Susan G. Lindsay, which is in turn drawn from the 1961 catalogue by Marie-Louise Bataille, Denis Rouart, and Georges Wildenstein. There are variations between the dates of execution, first showing and purchase. Titles may vary between sources.

===1864–1874===
* ''Étude'', 1864, oil on canvas, 60.3 × 73&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 23">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=23|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Chaumière en Normandie'', 1865, oil on canvas, 46 × 55&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 24">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=24|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''La Seine en aval du pont d'Iéna'', 1866, oil on canvas, 51 × 73&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="BW61 11">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=11|id=BW61}}</ref> 
* ''La Rivière de Pont Aven à Roz-Bras'', 1867, oil on canvas, 55 × 73&nbsp;cm, private collection – Chicago<ref name="BW61 12">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=12|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Bateaux à l'aurore'', 1869, pastel on paper, 19.7 × 26.7&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 34">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=34|id=SSL87}}</ref>
*''Jeune fille à sa fenêtre'', 1869, oil on canvas, 36.8 × 45.4&nbsp;cm, private collection
* ''[[The Mother and Sister of the Artist|Madame Morisot et sa fille Madame Pontillon (La Lecture)]]'', 1869–1870, oil on canvas, 101 × 81.8&nbsp;cm, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C.<ref name="SSL87 35">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=35|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''[[The Harbor at Lorient|Vue du petit port de Lorient (The Harbor at Lorient)]]'', 1869, oil on canvas, 43 × 72&nbsp;cm, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C.
* ''Le Port de Cherbourg'', 1871, crayon and watercolour on paper, 15.6 × 20.3&nbsp;cm, private collection of Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia<ref name="SSL87 40">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=40|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Le Port de Cherbourg'', 1871, oil on canvas, 41.9 × 55.9&nbsp;cm, private collection of Paul Mellon, Upperville, Virginia<ref name="SSL87 41">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=41|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Vue de paris de hauteurs du Trocadéro'', 1871, oil on canvas, 46.1 × 81.5&nbsp;cm, [[Santa Barbara Museum of Art]], California<ref name="SSL87 45">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=45|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Femme et enfant au balcon'', 1871–72, watercolor, 20.6 × 17.3&nbsp;cm, [[Art Institute of Chicago]]<ref name="SSL87 46">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=46|id=SSL87}}</ref><ref name="SSL87 47">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=47|id=SSL87}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/13916?search_no=2&index=13| title = Berthe Morisot, ''Femme et enfant au balcon'' (''On the Balcony''), 1871–72, Art Institute of Chicago}}</ref>
* ''Intérieur'', 1871, oil on canvas, 60 × 73&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="BW61 260">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=260|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Portrait de Madame Pontillon'', 1871, pastel on paper, 85.5 × 65.8&nbsp;cm, [[Louvre]] – drawings cabinet<ref name="BW61 419">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=419|id=BW61}}</ref> gift of Madame Edma Pontillon to the Louvre in 1921, in the collection of the [[Musée d'Orsay]]<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/collections/catalogue-des-oeuvres/notice.html?nnumid=3035| title = Madame Pontillon, descriptif actuel}}</ref>
* ''L'Entrée du port'', 1871,<ref group="Note">The scene ''L'Entrée du port'' is often confused with ''L'Entrée du port de Cherbourg'' purchased in 1874 by Durand-Ruel, or confused with ''Le Port de Cherbourg''</ref> watercolour on paper, 24.9 × 15.1&nbsp;cm, {{ill|Musée Léon-Alègre|fr}}, [[Bagnols-sur-Cèze]] – drawings cabinet<ref name="BW61 42">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=42|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Madame Pontillon et sa fille Jeanne sur un canapé'', 1871, watercolour on paper, 25.1 × 25.9&nbsp;cm, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington<ref name="SSL87 53">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=53|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Jeune fille sur un banc (Edma Pontillon)'', 1872, oil on canvas, 33 × 41&nbsp;cm<ref name="SSL87 51">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=51|id=SSL87}}</ref> 
* ''Cache-cache'', 1872, oil on canvas, 33 × 41&nbsp;cm, Private collection<ref name="SSL87 56">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=56|id=SSL87}}</ref> 
* ''[[The Cradle (Morisot)|Le Berceau]]'', 1872, oil on canvas, 56 × 46&nbsp;cm [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris
* ''La Lecture (Edma lisant)'', also titled ''L'Ombrelle verte'', 1873, oil on canvas, 45.1 × 72.4&nbsp;cm, [[Cleveland Museum of Art]], [[Ohio]]<ref name="SSL87 56" />
* ''Sur la plage des Petites-Dalles'', 1873, oil on canvas, 24.1 × 50.2&nbsp;cm, [[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Richmond, Virginia]]<ref name="BW61 28">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=28|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Madame Boursier et sa fille'', 1873, oil on canvas, 74 × 52&nbsp;cm, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts<ref name="BW61 34">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=34|id=BW61}}</ref> 
* ''Le Village de Maurecourt'', 1873, pastel on paper, 47 × 71.8&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 61">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=61|id=SSL87}}</ref> 
* ''Coin de Paris vu de Passy'', 1873, pastel on paper, 27 × 34.9&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 63">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=63|id=SSL87}}</ref> 
* ''Sur la terrasse'', 1874, oil on canvas, 45 × 54&nbsp;cm, [[Petit Palais|Musée du Petit Palais]], Paris<ref name="BW61 427">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=427|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''In a Villa by the Seaside'', 1874, oil on canvas,50.2 x 61&nbsp;cm, Norton Simon Art Foundation, [[Norton Simon Museum]], [[Pasadena, CA]]
* ''Portrait de Madame Hubbard'', 1874, oil on canvas, 50.5 × 81&nbsp;cm, [[Ordrupgaard]] museum de [[Copenhagen]]<ref name="SSL87 64">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=64|id=SSL87}}</ref> 
* ''Femme et enfant au bord de la mer '', 1874, watercolor on paper, 16 × 21.3&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 65">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=65|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''[[In a Park|Dans le parc]]'', ''c.'' 1874, pastel on paper, 72.5 × 91.8&nbsp;cm, [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de la Ville de Paris]], Petit Palais.

=== 1875–1884 ===
* ''Percher de blanchisseuses '', 1875, Oil on canvas 33 × 40.8&nbsp;cm, [[National Gallery of Art]],<ref name="SSL87 63" /> Washington D.C.
* ''Jeune fille au miroir'', 1875, oil on canvas, 54 × 45&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="BW61 61">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=61|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Scène de port dans l'île de Wight'', 1875, oil on canvas, 48 × 36&nbsp;cm private collection<ref name="BW61 52">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=52|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Scène de port dans l'île de Wight'', 1875, oil on canvas, 43 × 64&nbsp;cm, [[Newark Museum]], [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]], New Jersey<ref name="SSL87 69">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=69|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''[[Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight|Eugène Manet à l'île de Wight]]'', 1875, oil on canvas, 38 × 46&nbsp;cm private collection<ref name="BW61 51">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=51|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Avant d'un yacht'', 1875, watercolour on paper, 20.6 × 26.7&nbsp;cm, [[Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute]], [[Williamstown, Massachusetts]]<ref name="SSL87 71">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=71|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''[[Woman at her Toilette|Femme à sa toilette]]'', 1875, oil on canvas, 46 × 38&nbsp;cm private collection<ref name="BW61 73">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=73|id=BW61}}</ref>
* '' Femme à sa toilette '', 1875–1880, hst, dim; 60.3 × 80.4&nbsp;cm, Coll. [[Art Institute of Chicago]] 
* ''Portrait de femme (Avant le théâtre)'', 1875, oil on canvas, 57 × 31&nbsp;cm, Galerie Schröder & Leisewitz, [[Bremen]]<ref name="SSL87 71" />
* ''Jeune femme au bal'' encore intitulé ''Jeune femme en toilette de bal'', 1876, oil on canvas, 86 × 53&nbsp;cm [[Musée d'Orsay]]<ref name="BW61 81">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=81|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Au Bal'' ou ''Jeune fille au bal'', 1875, oil on canvas, 62 × 52&nbsp;cm, [[Musée Marmottan-Monet]], Paris
*''Jeune Femme arrosant un arbuste,'' 1876, oil on canvas, 40.01 × 31.75&nbsp;cm, [[Virginia Museum of Fine Arts]], [[Richmond, Virginia]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8122739/|title=Jeune Femme arrosant un arbuste (Primary Title) - (83.40)|website=Virginia Museum of Fine Arts {{!}}|language=en-US|access-date=9 January 2020}}</ref>
* ''Le Corsage noir '', 1876, oil on canvas, 73 × 59.8&nbsp;cm [[National Gallery of Ireland]], Dublin<ref name="BW61 59">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=59|id=BW61}}</ref> 
* ''[[The Psyche Mirror|La Psyché]]'', 1876, oil on canvas, 65 × 54&nbsp;cm, [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]], Madrid<ref name="BW61 64">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=64|id=BW61}}</ref> 
* ''Rêveuse'', 1877, pastel on canvas, 50.2 × 61&nbsp;cm, [[Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art]], [[Kansas City, Missouri]]<ref name="BW61 434">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=434|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''L'Été'', encore intitulé ''Jeune femme près d'une fenêtre'' 1878, oil on canvas, 76 × 61&nbsp;cm, [[Musée Fabre]], [[Montpellier]]<ref name="BW61 75">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=75|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Jeune feme assise'', 1878–1879, oil on canvas, 80 × 100&nbsp;cm, private collection New York City<ref name="BW61 78">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=78|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Jeune fille de dos à sa toilette'', encore intitulé ''Femme à sa toilette'' 1879, oil on canvas, 60.3 × 80.4&nbsp;cm [[Art Institute of Chicago]]<ref name="SSL87 81">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=81|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''[[Summer's Day|Le Lac du Bois de Boulogne (Jour d'été)]]'', 1879, 45.7 × 75.3&nbsp;cm, [[National Gallery]], London<ref name="SSL87 82">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=82|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Dans le jardin (Dames cueillant des fleurs)'', 1879, oil on canvas, 61 × 73.5&nbsp;cm, [[Nationalmuseum]] [[Stockholm]]<ref name="SSL87 83">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=83|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Jeune femme en toilette de bal (Young Woman in Evening Dress)'', 1879, oil on canvas, 71 x 54&nbsp;cm, [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris<ref>Robert Rosenblum, ''Paintings in the Musée D'Orsay'', p. 305, Stewart, Tabori & Chang (1989).</ref>
* ''Hiver'', 1880, oil on canvas, 73.5 × 58.5&nbsp;cm, [[Dallas Museum of Art]]<ref name="SSL87 85">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=85|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Deux filles assises près d'une table'', 1880, crayon and watercolour on paper 19,6 × 26.6&nbsp;cm private collection Germany
* ''Bateaux sur la Seine''. c. 1880, 25.5 × 50&nbsp;cm. Provenance: acquired from the artist's family by the first owner, sold with a letter of authenticity from Daniel Wildenstein at Sotheby's, 1984.
* ''Plage à Nice'' 1881–1882, watercolour on paper 42 × 55&nbsp;cm, [[Nationalmuseum]] [[Stockholm]]<ref name="SSL87 91">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=91|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Le Port de Nice'', 1881–1882, oil on canvas, 53 × 43&nbsp;cm private collection<ref name="BW61 112">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=112|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Le Port de Nice'', 1881–1882, oil on canvas, 41 × 55&nbsp;cm private collection<ref name="BW61 113">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=113|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Le Port de Nice'' 1881 (?)third version format 38 × 46&nbsp;cm conserved at [[Dallas Museum of Art]]
* ''Le Thé'', 1882, oil on canvas, 57.5 × 71.5&nbsp;cm, Fondation Madelon [[Vaduz]], Liechtenstein<ref name="SSL87 95">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=95|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Le Port de Nice'', 1881–1882, oil on canvas, 53 × 43&nbsp;cm private collection<ref name="BW61 112" />
* ''La Fable'', 1883, oil on canvas, 65 × 81&nbsp;cm private collection<ref name="BW61 138">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=138|id=BW61}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.impressionism-art.org/img1474.htm |title=voir La Fable |access-date=26 November 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205090142/http://www.impressionism-art.org/img1474.htm |archive-date=5 December 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* ''Le Jardin (Femmes dans le jardin)'' (1882–1883) oil on canvas, 99.1 × 127&nbsp;cm, [[Sara Lee Corporation]], Chicago<ref name="SSL87 96">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=96|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Eugène Manet et sa fille au jardin'' 1883, oil on canvas, 60 × 73, private collection<ref name="SSL87 97">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=97|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Dans le jardin à Maurecourt'', 1883, oil on canvas, 54 × 65&nbsp;cm, [[Toledo Museum of Art]]<ref name="BW61 154">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=154|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Le Quai de Bougival'', 1883, oil on canvas, 55.5 × 46&nbsp;cm, [[Nasjonalgalleriet]], Oslo<ref name="SSL87 101">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=101|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Julie et son bateau (Enfant jouant)'', 1883, watercolour on paper, 25 × 16&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 98">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=98|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''La Meule de foin'' 1883, oil on canvas, 55.3 × 45.7&nbsp;cm, private collection, New York<ref name="SSL87 103">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=103|id=SSL87}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url = http://fr.wahooart.com/Art.nsf/O/8EWCSF| title = aperçu de la toile Meule de foin}}</ref>
* ''Dans la véranda'', 1884, oil on canvas, 81 × 10&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 104">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=104|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Julie avec sa poupée'', 1884, oil on canvas, 82 × 10&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 105">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=105|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Petite fille avec sa poupée (Julie Manet)'', 1884, pastel on paper, 60 × 46&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 107">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=107|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Sur le lac'', 1884, oil on canvas, 65 × 54&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 109">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=109|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''The Artist's Daughter, Julie, with her Nanny'', c. 1884, oil on canvas, [[Minneapolis Institute of Art]]<ref>{{cite web| url = https://collections.artsmia.org/search/morisot| title = Minneapolis Institute of Art}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/10444/the-artists-daughter-julie-with-her-nanny-berthe-morisot|title=The Artist's Daughter, Julie, with her Nanny, Berthe Morisot ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art|website=collections.artsmia.org|access-date=17 February 2018}}</ref>

=== 1885–1894 ===
* ''Autoportrait'', 1885, pastel on paper, 47.5 × 37.5&nbsp;cm, [[Art Institute of Chicago]]<ref name="SSL87 110">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=110|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Autoportrait avec Julie'', 1885, oil on canvas, 72 × 91&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 111">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=111|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Jeune femme assise au Bois de Boulogne'', 1885, watercolour on paper, 19 × 28&nbsp;cm, [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], New York City<ref name="SSL87 115">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=115|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''La Forêt de Compiègne'', 1885, oil on canvas, 54.2 × 64.8&nbsp;cm, [[Art Institute of Chicago]]<ref name="SSL87 117">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=117|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Le Bain (Jeune file se coiffant)'', 1885–1886, oil on canvas, 81.1 × 72.3&nbsp;cm, [[Art Institute of Chicago]]<ref name="SSL87 120">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=120|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''[[In the Dining Room|Dans la salle à manger]]'', 1885–1886, oil on canvas, 61.3 × 50&nbsp;cm, [[National Gallery of Art]]<ref name="SSL87 122">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=122|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Le Lever'', 1886, oil on canvas, 65 × 54&nbsp;cm, [[Paul Durand-Ruel|collection Durand-Ruel]]<ref name="SSL87 121">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=121|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Intérieur à Jersey (Intérieur de cottage)'', 1886, oil on canvas, 50 × 60&nbsp;cm, [[:fr:Musée communal des beaux-arts d'Ixelles|Musée communal des beaux-arts d'Ixelles]]<ref name="BW61 197">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=197|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Femme s'essuyant'', 1886–1887, pastel on paper, 42 × 41&nbsp;cm, Non localisé<ref name="SSL87 127">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=127|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Julie avec un chat'', 1887, [[drypoint]], 14.5 × 11.3&nbsp;cm, National Gallery of Art, Washington<ref name="SSL87 128">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=128|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Nu de dos'', 1887, [[charcoal]] on paper, 57 × 43&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 129">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=129|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Éventail en médaillon'', 1887, watercolour on silk fan, private collection<ref name="BW61 750">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=750|id=BW61}}</ref>
* ''Portrait de Paule Gobillard'', 1887, coloured pencil on paper, 27.9 × 22.9&nbsp;cm, [[Reader's Digest Association]], New York<ref name="SSL87 131">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=131|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Le Lac du Bois de Boulogne'', 1887, watercolour on paper, 29.5 × 22.2&nbsp;cm, [[National Museum of Women in the Arts]], Washington<ref name="SSL87 133">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=133|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''Fillette lisant (La lecture)'', 1888, oil on canvas, 74.3 × 92.7&nbsp;cm, [[Museum of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg, Florida)]]<ref name="SSL87 134">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=134|id=SSL87}}</ref>
* ''[[Young Girl in a Park|Jeune Fille dans un parc (Young Girl in a Park)]]'', 1888–1893, oil on canvas, 90 × 81&nbsp;cm, [[Musée des Augustins]], Toulouse
* ''Berthe Morisot and Julie Manet'', c.1888–1890, drypoint, 18.42 x 13.49&nbsp;cm, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://collections.artsmia.org/art/7533/berthe-morisot-and-julie-manet-berthe-morisot|title=Berthe Morisot and Julie Manet, Berthe Morisot ^ Minneapolis Institute of Art|website=collections.artsmia.org|access-date=17 February 2018}}</ref>
* ''La Cueillette des oranges'', 1889, pastel, 61 × 46&nbsp;cm, [[:fr:Musée d'art et d'histoire de Provence|Musée d'art et d'histoire de Provence]], [[Grasse]]<ref name="BW61 542">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=542|id=BW61}}</ref>
*''[[La Petite Niçoise]] (The Small Girl from Nice)'', 1889, oil on canvas, 64 × 52&nbsp;cm, [[Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon]]
*''Sous l'oranger (Julie)'', 1889, oil on canvas, 54 × 65&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 142">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=142|id=SSL87}}</ref>
*''L'Île du Bois de Boulogne'', 1889, oil on canvas, 68.4 × 54.6&nbsp;cm, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington<ref name="SSL87 147">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=147|id=SSL87}}</ref>
*''Le Flageolet (Julie Manet et Jeanne Gobillard)'', 1891, oil on canvas, 56 × 87&nbsp;cm, private collection<ref name="SSL87 152">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=152|id=SSL87}}</ref>
*''Le Cerisier 1891'', 1891, oil on canvas, 138 × 88.9&nbsp;cm, private collection, Washington<ref name="BW61 275">{{harvsp|Bataille Wildenstein|p=275|id=BW61}}</ref>
*'' Étude pour Le Cerisier'', 1891, pastel on paper, 45.7 × 48.9&nbsp;cm, The Reader's Digest Association<ref name="SSL87 155">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=155|id=SSL87}}</ref> 
*''Julie Manet avec son lévrier'', 1893, oil on canvas, 73× 80&nbsp;cm, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris<ref name="SSL87 165">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=165|id=SSL87}}</ref> 
*''Les Enfants de Gabriel Thomas'', 1894, oil on canvas, 100 × 80&nbsp;cm, Musée d'Orsay, Paris<ref name="SSL87 172">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=172|id=SSL87}}</ref>
*''La Coiffure'', 1894, oil on canvas, 100 × 80&nbsp;cm, [[Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires)]]<ref name="SSL87 173">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=173|id=SSL87}}</ref>
*''Jeune fille aux cheveux noirs'', 1894, pencil and watercolour, 23.1 × 16.8&nbsp;cm, [[Philadelphia Museum of Art]], [[Philadelphia]]<ref name="SSL87 174">{{harvsp|Stuckey, Scott Lindsay|p=174|id=SSL87}}</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery widths="170" heights="170" perrow="6">
File:The Artist's Sister at a Window A16570.jpg|''The Artist's Sister at a Window'', 1869, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington D.C.
File:Berthe Morisot, The Sisters, 1869, NGA 42285.jpg|''The Sisters'', 1869, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington D.C.
File:Berthe Morisot 001.jpg|''Woman and Child on the Balcony (Femme et enfant au balcon)'', 1872, [[Artizon Museum]], Tokyo
File:Berthe Morisot 008.jpg|''[[The Cradle (Morisot)|The Cradle]]'', 1872, [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris
File:Berthe Morisot Reading.jpg|''L'ombrelle verte,'' ''Reading (portrait of [[Edma Morisot]]),'' 1873, [[Cleveland Museum of Art]]
File:Berthe Morisot Jeune fille au bal.jpg|''Au Bal'', 1875, [[Musée Marmottan-Monet]], Paris
File:1875 Morisot Laundry.jpg|''Suspendre le linge pour sécher '''('''Hanging the Laundry out to Dry)'', 1875, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington D.C.
File:Berthe Morisot - Woman at Her Toilette - 1924.127 - Art Institute of Chicago.jpg|''[[Woman at her Toilette]]'', 1875, [[The Art Institute of Chicago]]<ref>{{Cite web|last=Morisot|first=Berthe|title=Woman at Her Toilette|url=https://www.artic.edu/artworks/11723/woman-at-her-toilette|access-date=2021-05-24|website=The Art Institute of Chicago|language=en}}</ref>
File:Berthe Morisot - Eugène Manet à l'île de Wight.jpg|''Eugène Manet on the [[Isle of Wight]]'', 1875, [[Musée Marmottan Monet]], Paris
File:Psique.berthe.morisot.jpg|''[[The Psyche Mirror|La Psyché]]'', 1876, [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]], Madrid 
File:Berthe Morisot - Sommertag - 1879.jpeg|''[[Summer's Day]] (Jour d'été)'', 1879, [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]], London 
File:Berthe Morisot Winter aka Woman with a Muff.jpg|''Winter aka Woman with a Muff (Hiver)'', 1880, [[Dallas Museum of Arts]]
File:Child among the Hollyhocks - Berthe Morisot - Paris 1863 – 1874- Revolution in der Kunst-9810 (without frame).jpg|''Child among the Hollyhocks (Enfant dans les roses trémières)'', 1881, [[Wallraf-Richartz Museum]], Cologne
File:Morisot TheArtistsDaughterJulieWithHerNanny MIA 9640.jpg|''The Artists' Daughter Julie With Her Nanny'', c.1884, [[Minneapolis Institute of Art]]
File:Girl on Divan ca. 1885 – Berthe Morisot.jpg|''Girl on Divan'', ca. 1885, [[National Gallery, London|National Gallery]], London 
File:Berthe Morisot - The Cage, 1885.jpg|''The Cage'', 1885, [[National Museum of Women in the Arts]], Washington D.C.
File:Berthe Morisot The Bath.jpg|''The Bath (Girl Arranging Her Hair)'', 1885–86, [[Clark Art Institute]], Williamstown, Massachusetts
File:Berthe Morisot 003.jpg|''In the Dining Room'', 1886, [[National Gallery of Art]], Washington D.C.
File:Morisot Jeune fille dans un parc (RO 708).jpg|''[[Young Girl in a Park]]'', 1888–1893, [[Musée des Augustins]], Toulouse 
File:Before the Mirror by Berthe Morisot.jpg|''Before the Mirror'', 1890, [[Fondation Pierre Gianadda]], Switzerland
File:Berthe Morisot - The Flute Player.jpg|''Le Flageolet'' (''The Flute Player''), 1890, Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts
File:Berthe Morisot - Girl with Greyhound - 1893.jpg|''Julie Manet et son Lévrier Laerte'', 1893, [[Musée Marmottan Monet]], Paris
File:Berthe Morisot - Bergère nue couchée.jpg|''Bergère nue couchée'', 1891, [[Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum]], Madrid 
File:Two Girls by Berthe Morisot.jpg|''Two Girls'', 1894, [[The Phillips Collection]], Washington D.C.
</gallery>

==Portraits of Morisot==
<gallery widths="170px" heights="170px" perrow="6">
Image:Édouard Manet - Le Balcon.jpg|Detail from ''[[The Balcony (painting)|The Balcony]]'' by [[Édouard Manet]], with the portrait of Berthe in the foreground, 1868
Image:Édouard Manet - Le repos.jpg|Berthe Morisot posing for ''The Rest'', 1870, by [[Édouard Manet]]
Image:Édouard Manet - Berthe Morisot on a divan.jpg|''Berthe Morisot on a divan couch'', 1872, by Édouard Manet
Image:Berthe Morisot Manet Lille 2918.jpg|Portrait of ''[[Berthe Morisot with a Fan]]'', 1874, by Édouard Manet
Image:Marcellin Desboutin - Portrait Berthe Morisot.jpg|''Portrait of Berthe Morisot'', 1876, by [[Marcellin Desboutin]]
Image:Manet - Berthe Morisot ruhend.jpg|''Portrait of Berthe Morisot'', 1882, by Édouard Manet
Image:Édouard Manet - Berthe Morisot au soulier rose.jpg|''Berthe Morisot au soulier rose'', 1872, by [[Édouard Manet]]. [[Hiroshima Museum of Art]]
Image:Pierre Auguste Renoir - Portrait Berthe Morisot and daughter Julie.jpg|''Berthe Morisot and her daughter Julie Manet'', 1894, by [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]
Image:Renoir Berthe Morisot.jpg|''Berthe Morisot'', 1892, by [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]]
</gallery>

==Art market==
[[File:Berthe Morisot - After Lunch, 1881.jpg|thumb|''After Lunch'', 1881|250px]]
Morisot's work sold comparatively well. She achieved the two highest prices at a [[Hôtel Drouot]] auction in 1875, the ''Interior (Young Woman with Mirror)'' sold for 480 francs, and her pastel ''On the Lawn'' sold for 320 francs.<ref>{{cite book|title=Women, Art, and Society|last1=Chadwick|first1=Whitney|date=2012|publisher=Thames & Hudson Ltd.|isbn=978-0-500-20405-4|edition=5th|location=London|page=235}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Berthe Morisot|last1=Higonnet|first1=Anne|date=1990|publisher=Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.|isbn=0-06-016232-5|location=New York|page=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/124 124]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00higo/page/124}}</ref> Her works averaged 250 francs, the best relative prices at the auction.<ref>{{cite book|title=Berthe Morisot: The First Lady of Impressionism|last1=Shennan|first1=Margaret|date=1996|publisher=Sutton Publishing Limited|isbn=0-7509-1226 X|location=Stroud|page=[https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00marg/page/173 173]|url=https://archive.org/details/berthemorisot00marg/page/173}}</ref>

In February 2013, Morisot became the highest priced female artist, when ''After Lunch'' (1881), a portrait of a young redhead in a straw hat and purple dress, sold for $10.9&nbsp;million at a [[Christie's]] auction. The painting achieved roughly three times its upper estimate,<ref name="Wall Street Journal">Kelly Crow and Mary M. Lane (6 February 2013), [https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887323452204578288883038627820 Christie's Breaks World Record Price for Female Artist] ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.</ref><ref name="Women on the Verge">Ellen Gamerman and Mary M. Lane (18 April 2013), [https://www.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424127887324030704578424673474011066?mg=reno64-wsj&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10001424127887324030704578424673474011066.html Women on the Verge] ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]''.</ref><ref>Katya Kazakina (14 May 2014), [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-14/francis-bacon-portrait-of-companion-fetches-80-8-million.html Billionaires Help Christie's to Record $745 Million Sale] ''[[Bloomberg L.P.|Bloomberg]]''.</ref> and it exceeded the 2012 record of $10.7&nbsp;million for a sculpture by [[Louise Bourgeois]].<ref name="Wall Street Journal" />

==Legacy==
She was portrayed by actress [[Marine Delterme]] in a 2012 French biographical TV film directed by [[Caroline Champetier]]. The character of Beatrice de Clerval in [[Elizabeth Kostova]]'s ''[[The Swan Thieves]]'' is largely based on Morisot.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bookpage.com/the-book-case/2009/11/17/sneak-peek-elizabeth-kostovas-the-swan-thieves/|title=Sneak peek: Elizabeth Kostova's 'The Swan Thieves'|editor=Trisha Ping|date=17 November 2009|publisher=bookpage.com|access-date=17 March 2012|archive-date=6 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106142354/https://bookpage.com/the-book-case/2009/11/17/sneak-peek-elizabeth-kostovas-the-swan-thieves/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

She was featured as the "A First Impressionist" in an article written by Anne Truitt in the ''New York Times'' on 3 June 1990.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/03/books/a-first-impressionist.html|title=A FIRST IMPRESSIONIST|last=Truitt|first=Anne|work=The New York Times |date=3 June 1990 |access-date=29 March 2018}}</ref>

From Melissa Burdick Harmon, an editor at ''Biography'' magazine, "While some of Morisot's work may seem to us today like sweet depictions of babies in cradles, at the time these images were considered extremely intimate, as objects related to infants belonged exclusively to the world of women."<ref name="Harmon, Melissa Burdick 2001, p. 98"/>

In 2019, the [[Musée d'Orsay]] devoted a temporary exhibition to Berthe Morisot to pay tribute to her work.<ref>[https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/expositions/presentation/berthe-morisot-1841-1895 Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), from June 18 to September 22, 2019]</ref>

== Exhibition ==
{| class="wikitable"
! Selected Berthe Morisot Solo Exhibitions
! Date
|-
|Paris, Boussod, Valadon et Cie. ''Exposition de tableaux, pastels et dessins par Berthe Morisot''.
|1892, 25 May – 18 June
|-
|Paris, Galerie Durand-Ruel. ''Berthe Morisot (Madame Eugene Manet): exposition de son œuvre''.
|1896, 5–23 March
|-
|Paris: Galerie Durand-Ruel. ''Exposition Berthe Morisot.''
|1902, 23 April – 10 May
|-
|Paris, Galerie E. Druet. ''Exposition Berthe Morisot.''
|1905, January–February
|-
|Paris, Galerie Manzi-Joyant. ''Exposition Berthe Morisot.''
|1912
|-
|Paris. Galerie Manzi-Joyant. ''Exposition Berthe Morisot.''
|1914, April
|-
|Paris, Galerie Bernheim-Jeune. ''Cent oeuvres de Berthe Morisot'' (1841–1895).
|1919, 7–22 November
|-
|Paris, Galerie Marcel Bernheim. ''Réunion d'oeuvres, par Berthe Morisot.''
|1922, 20 June – 8 July
|-
|Chicago, Arts Club of Chicago. ''Exposition of Paintings by Berthe Morisot.'' 3 p.
|1925, 30 January – 10 March
|-
|London, Ernest Brown & Phillips, The Leicester Galleries. ''Berthe Morisot Exhibition.''
|1930, March–April
|-
|New York, Wildenstein Galleries. ''Berthe Morisot Exhibition.''
|1936, 24 November – 12 December
|-
|Paris, Musée de l'Orangerie. ''Berthe Morisot, 1841–1895.''
|1941, Summer
|-
|Paris, Galerie Weil. ''Berthe Morisot, retrospective.''
|1947
|-
|Copenhagen, NY Carlsberg Glyptotek. ''Berthe Morisot, 1841–1895: Mälningar: Olja och Akvarellsamt Teckningar''.
|1949, 20 August – 23 October
|-
|Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. ''Berthe Morisot: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors.''
|1960, 10 October – 10 December
|-
|Paris, Musée Jacquemart-Andre, lnstitut de France. ''Berthe Morisot''.
|1961
|-
|Paris, Galerie Hopkins-Thomas. ''Berthe Morisot''.
|1987–88, April – 9 May
|-
|London, JPL Fine Arts. ''Berthe Morisot (1841–1895'').
|1990–91, 7 November – 18 January
|-
|Paris, Galerie Hopkins Thomas. ''Berthe Morisot''.
|1993, 15 October – 30 November
|-
|Lille, the Palais des Beaux-Arts, ''Berthe Morisot''
|2002, 10 March – 9 June
|-
|Martigny, La Fondation Pierre Gianadda, ''Berthe Morisot''
|2002, 20 June – 9 November
|-
|Washington DC, National Museum of Women in the Arts, ''Berthe Morisot:  An Impressionist and Her Circle.''
|2005, 14 January – 8 May
|-
|Spain, Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, ''Berthe Morisot: The Woman impressionist.''
|2012, 15 November – 12 February
|-
|Québec, The Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec, ''Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist.''<ref>This exhibition was subsequently shown at the [[Barnes Foundation]] in Philadelphia, the [[Dallas Museum of Art]] and [[Musée d'Orsay]] in Paris. Cohen, Rachel. [https://www.apollo-magazine.com/berthe-morisot-comes-into-her-own/ "Berthe Morisot comes into her own"] ''Apollo''. 6 October 2018.</ref>
|2018, 21 June – 23 September
|-
|London, Dulwich Picture Gallery, ''Berthe Morisot: Shaping Impressionism.''
|2023, 31 March – 10 September
|-
|Genoa, Palazzo Ducale, Impression Morisot
|2024, 12–2 October, 025, 23 February
|-
|Turin, GAM (Gallery Modern Art), Berthe Morisot. Pittrice impressionista
|2024, 16–2 October, 025, 9 March
|}

== See also ==
* [[Women artists]]
* [[Western painting]]
* [[History of painting]]
* [[Julie Manet]]

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Sources==
{{Americana Poster|Morisot, Berthe|Berthe Morisot}}
* {{cite book |last1=Bataille |first1=Marie-Louise |last2=Wildenstein |first2=Georges |title=Berthe Morisot : Catalogue des peintures, pastels et aquarelles |year=1961 |location=Paris |publisher=Les Beaux-Arts |oclc=490107208 |ref=CITEREFBataille_Wildenstein}}
* Denvir, Bernard (1993). ''The Chronicle of Impressionism: An Intimate Diary of the Lives and World of the Great Artists''. London: Thames & Hudson. {{OCLC|43339405}}
* [[Anne Higonnet|Higonnet, Anne]] (1990). ''Berthe Morisot''. New York: Harper & Row.
* Turner, Jane (2000). ''From Monet to Cézanne: Late 19th-century French Artists''. Grove Art. New York: [[St. Martin's Press]]. {{ISBN|0-312-22971-2}}
* [[Julie Manet|Manet, Julie]], Rosalind de Boland Roberts, and Jane Roberts (1987). ''Growing Up with the Impressionists: The Diary of Julie Manet''. London: Sotheby's Publications.
* Shennan, Margaret (1996). ''Berthe Morisot: The First Lady of Impressionism''. Stroud: Sutton Publishing. {{ISBN|0-7509-2339-3}}

==Further reading==
* [[Julian Barnes|Barnes, Julian]]. [https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n17/julian-barnes/the-necessary-talent "The Morisot Sisters"] ''London Review of Books'', vol. 41, no. 17, 12 September 2019.
* Cohen, Rachel. [https://www.apollo-magazine.com/berthe-morisot-comes-into-her-own/ "Berthe Morisot comes into her own"] ''Apollo''. 6 October 2018.
* [[Jeffrey Meyers|Meyers, Jeffrey]] (2005). ''Impressionist Quartet: The Intimate Genius of Manet and Morisot, Degas and Cassatt''. Orlando: Harcourt.
* [[Elizabeth Mongan|Mongan, Elizabeth]] (1960). ''Berthe Morisot: Drawings, Pastels, Watercolors, Paintings''. New York: Tudor Pub. Co. (Charles E. Slatkin Galleries in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston exhibition).
* Rouart, Denis, ed. (1959). ''The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot with her family and her friends''. New York: E. Weyhe. Denis Rouart was the son of [[Julie Manet]] and the grandson of Berthe Morisot. "Family Tree", in Greenwald, Diana Seave, ed. ''Manet: A Model Family''. Boston: [[Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum]], p. 101.
* {{cite book |last=Smee |first=Sebastian |author-link=Sebastian Smee |date=2024 |title=Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism |url= |location= |publisher=W. W. Norton & Company|isbn=978-1-324-00695-4}}
* Stuckey, Charles F. and William P. Scott with the assistance of Suzanne G. Lindsay (1987). ''Berthe Morisot: Impressionist''. New York: Hudson Hill Press.

== External links ==
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* {{Internet Archive author |sname=Berthe Morisot}}
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* {{Wikiquote-inline}}
* [http://womenintheactofpainting.blogspot.fr/2012/11/edma-and-berthe.html Edma Morisot, 1865, ''Berthe Morisot painting at her easel'' Private collection.]
* [http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/morisot/ Berthe Morisot] at the [[WebMuseum]]
* [http://www.thefamousartists.com/berthe-morisot/ Biography of Berthe Morisot]
* {{FrenchSculptureCensus}}
* [https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/morisot Berthe Morisot: Woman Impressionist] Exhibition at the [[Barnes Foundation]], Philadelphia, 21 October 2018 – 14 January 2019.
* [https://www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/agenda/expositions/presentation/berthe-morisot-1841-1895 Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)] Exhibition at the [[Musée d'Orsay]], Paris, 18 June to 22 September 2019.

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