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Delphi Complete Paintings of Berthe Morisot (Illustrated)
Today Berthe Morisot is recognised as the first lady of Impressionism, who left behind her an exceptional body of work, including oil paintings, pastels, watercolours, prints, sculptures and several hundred drawings. The only woman to join the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their exhibitions, she was also a close friend and colleague of Édouard Manet. Her paintings are celebrated for their delicate and subtle quality, brimming with exquisite colour, winning her the admiration of her fellow Impressionists. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Morisot’s complete paintings in beautiful detail, with concise introductions, hundreds of high quality images and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) * The complete paintings of Berthe Morisot – over 300 paintings, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Morisot’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smart phones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the paintings you wish to view * Includes a selection of Morisot's drawings – explore the artist’s varied works * Features a bonus biography – discover Morisot's artistic and personal life Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting e-Art books The Highlights Thatched Cottage in Normandy The Artist’s Mother and Sister The Harbour at Lorient The Artist’s Sister at a Window The Cradle On a Balcony Hide and Seek Chasing Butterflies Summer’s Day Winter The Wet Nurse Manet and His Daughter in the Garden at Bougival Self Portrait, 1885 A Woman Seated at a Bench on the Avenue du Bois The Quay at Bougival The Cherry Tree Young Girl with a Cat Julie Daydreaming The Paintings The Complete Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings Selected Drawings List of Drawings The Biography Berthe Morisot by Théodore Duret Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of exciting titles or to buy the whole Art series as a Super Set
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Published October 7, 2018
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December 9, 2020
I loved the paintings of her sister, her daughter and her husband and daughter the best.
Both sisters, Edma and Berthe were indeed talented, Berthe looked to perfect her skill, whereas Edma married, Berthe gives us Edma, and paints her which signifies.
"A forerunner of the Impressionist Movement, Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot, was the senior administrator of the department of Cher, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France, while her mother, Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas, was the great-niece of the grande Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard. She had three siblings: two older sisters and a younger brother. When she was eleven years old, the family relocated to Paris. At the time, it was commonplace for bourgeois daughters to receive an art education, so Berthe and her sisters Yves and Edma were taught privately by Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne and Joseph Guichard — the latter became the director of École des Beaux Arts where Morisot’s father earned his degree. Morisot and her sisters initially began lessons to enable them both to make a drawing for their father for his birthday. In 1857 Guichard, who ran a school for girls in Rue des Moulins, introduced Berthe and Edma to the Louvre gallery where they could learn from the Old Masters and they were taught the practice of copying paintings. They were forbidden to work at the museum without a chaperon and they were barred from all formal training. However, their experiences at the museum did not prevent them from forming important friendships with young male artists, including Manet and Monet. "
Both sisters, Edma and Berthe were indeed talented, Berthe looked to perfect her skill, whereas Edma married, Berthe gives us Edma, and paints her which signifies.
"A forerunner of the Impressionist Movement, Berthe Morisot was born in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot, was the senior administrator of the department of Cher, in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France, while her mother, Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas, was the great-niece of the grande Rococo artist Jean-Honoré Fragonard. She had three siblings: two older sisters and a younger brother. When she was eleven years old, the family relocated to Paris. At the time, it was commonplace for bourgeois daughters to receive an art education, so Berthe and her sisters Yves and Edma were taught privately by Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne and Joseph Guichard — the latter became the director of École des Beaux Arts where Morisot’s father earned his degree. Morisot and her sisters initially began lessons to enable them both to make a drawing for their father for his birthday. In 1857 Guichard, who ran a school for girls in Rue des Moulins, introduced Berthe and Edma to the Louvre gallery where they could learn from the Old Masters and they were taught the practice of copying paintings. They were forbidden to work at the museum without a chaperon and they were barred from all formal training. However, their experiences at the museum did not prevent them from forming important friendships with young male artists, including Manet and Monet. "
May 28, 2019
The great works of Berthe Morisot
A wonderful collection of the great artist Berthe
Morisot as well as a small biography of the artist herself, beautifully rendered a great artist of her age but like so many not properly recognised for her great talent but also for being a woman with talent! Although she was able to sell a small amount of her work, where the other male counterparts never did!
A wonderful collection of the great artist Berthe
Morisot as well as a small biography of the artist herself, beautifully rendered a great artist of her age but like so many not properly recognised for her great talent but also for being a woman with talent! Although she was able to sell a small amount of her work, where the other male counterparts never did!
February 15, 2024
Delphi Classics presents an overview of the life and work of “the first lady of Impressionism” (p. 67), Berthe Morisot. The ebook provides images of all of Morisot’s paintings and drawings, along with biographical material and analysis of her most famous works. Delphi’s Masters of Art series is a boon for people who have never had the opportunity to take an art history class in a university environment.
Some highlights:
[Image: The Harbor at Lorient [Vue du petit port de Lorient], 1869]
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[Image: Woman and child on a balcony [Femme et enfant au balcon] (1872)]
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[Image: Chasing Butterflies (1874)
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[Image: The Cradle [Le berceau] (1873)]
“Instead of portraying the public space and society, Morisot preferred private and intimate scenes.” (p. 235).
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[Image: The Cherry Tree by Berthe Morisot (1891)]
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[Image: The cover of the Delphi classics book using the painting Summer's Day [Jour d'été], 1879]
“One of the most striking features of Morisot’s brushwork was her repeated zigzag strokes, bestowing a shimmering and restless quality in her canvases, as though her scenes were refracted through delicate prisms.” (p. 116).
Citation:
Title: Delphi Complete Paintings of Berthe Morisot
Author(s): Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), Peter Russell (editor)
Series: Delphi Masters of Art Book 48
Year: 2018
Genre: Nonfiction - Impressionist art, biography, & history
Page count: 829 pages
Date(s) read: 2/1/24 - 2/2/24
Book #35 in 2024
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Some highlights:
[Image: The Harbor at Lorient [Vue du petit port de Lorient], 1869]
“The representation of a figure in full light would become a hallmark subject for the Impressionists. Morisot employs this technique by portraying her sister in a wholly white outfit, juxtaposed to the shimmering water of the port. The integration of a female figure against a vaporous and silvery background would become a recurring theme for many of Morisot’s artworks.” (p. 42).
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[Image: Woman and child on a balcony [Femme et enfant au balcon] (1872)]
“Morisot worked with watercolours for most of the time throughout the 1870’s. Her choice of colours was rather restrained, though the delicate repetition of hues achieved a balanced and inimitable effect. Due to specific characteristics of watercolours as a medium, she was able to create a translucent semblance and feathery touch in her work, giving her paintings an unmistakeable fresh appearance…
The red flowers in the upper right section of the composition are depicted with fine precision, while the blue ribbon in the girl’s auburn hair and the transparent black silk ruffles of the woman’s elegant dress also assume a life of their own…
Morisot utilises the balcony as a compositional device to divide the pictorial space into two distinct halves, demarcating the private, domestic sphere that the figures occupy, while the sprawling public world of the city comprises the other half.” (pp. 79-81).
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[Image: Chasing Butterflies (1874)
“The canvas underscores a recurring feature of Morisot’s works, where seemingly fortunate figures, surrounded by beautiful settings, appear with melancholic and thoughtful expressions. One of the artist’s hallmark traits is the delicate combination of visual happiness and latent sorrow, capturing the dual nature of life’s precarious existence. Morisot had a profound and reflective nature, her melancholy haunting her throughout much of her life and it is this sensitive of expression that mark her canvases as especially unique compared to her more famous Impressionist contemporaries.” (pp. 105-7).
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[Image: The Cradle [Le berceau] (1873)]
“Instead of portraying the public space and society, Morisot preferred private and intimate scenes.” (p. 235).
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[Image: The Cherry Tree by Berthe Morisot (1891)]
“The paintings produced by Morisot in her later years are noted for the subtle sensuality in which they capture the essence of life, represented by trivial, yet touching scenes of rural and garden life.” (p. 206).
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[Image: The cover of the Delphi classics book using the painting Summer's Day [Jour d'été], 1879]
“One of the most striking features of Morisot’s brushwork was her repeated zigzag strokes, bestowing a shimmering and restless quality in her canvases, as though her scenes were refracted through delicate prisms.” (p. 116).
Citation:
Title: Delphi Complete Paintings of Berthe Morisot
Author(s): Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), Peter Russell (editor)
Series: Delphi Masters of Art Book 48
Year: 2018
Genre: Nonfiction - Impressionist art, biography, & history
Page count: 829 pages
Date(s) read: 2/1/24 - 2/2/24
Book #35 in 2024
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