Morisot

American  

[maw-ree-zoh] / mɔ riˈzoʊ /

noun

1. Berthe 1841–95, French Impressionist painter.

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Morisot British  

/ morizo /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Not for him were the depictions of the lives and leisure of the wealthy or the bourgeoisie favored by Renoir, Cassatt and Morisot.

From The Wall Street Journal

It was educational — though I didn’t fact-check — weaving in the stories of artists considered revolutionary in their time, like Morisot, Monet and Degas.

From Salon

“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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal

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.

From The Wall Street Journal