Morisot

[maw-ree-zoh]

noun

1. Berthe 1841–95, French Impressionist painter.

Morisot

/ morizo /

noun

1. Berthe (bɛrtə). 1841–95, French impressionist painter; noted for her studies of women and children

Example Sentences

Their work has been seen as reflecting their vastly different personas—Manet the dashing, witty, impetuous flâneur; Morisot the reserved, intelligent and exceedingly decorous bourgeoise—through the lens of their separate worlds.

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“Manet & Morisot,” a show of 45 works currently installed at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor and organized by Emily A. Beeny, the museum’s chief curator, finally captures—in stunning, revisionist form—the richness of that evolving artistic exchange and its seminal place in art history.

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The two artists met at the Louvre in about 1865, and the show opens with a gallery of portraits Manet painted of Morisot shortly thereafter.

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Thick, sparkling strokes of white paint flatten her face at left, and collide with dark shadows at right, not so much modeling Morisot’s countenance as enlivening it and intensifying her penetrating gaze, while rough scribbles of darker pigments render her costume and a clutch of violets at center.

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Finished, atypically for Manet, in only one or two sessions, it captures both Morisot’s likeness and the dazzling brio of her technique, and suggests the sense of effortless spontaneity Manet would labor to achieve in other works.

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