Paintings of real, often poor, people in the Netherlands, the extreme west cost of Brittany, and foothills of the mountains. She also remained in Paris to help there during the First World War.
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After training and a promising start to her career in Cincinnati, she moved to Paris, where she painted social realist portraits through northern Europe.
Manet’s only pupil, she exhibited regularly at the Salon, and never with the Impressionists, although her oil and pastel paintings are thoroughly Impressionist.
Fairy-tale princesses in their hennin conical hat, her half-sister modelling for Tissot, dinner with the Sisleys, Impressionist trees at dawn, white roses, and more.
Her turning point in 1874 – rejected from the Salon, joining the first Impressionist Exhibition, and marrying Édouard Manet’s brother. How those changed art.
She started copying in the Louvre when she was 16, met Corot there, and exhibited regularly at the Salon from 1864-73, and at the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874.
Her later years, of developing her drypoint print-making, incorporating colour with aquatint, turning an oil painting into a sophisticated print, and yet more wonderful pastels.
Brief reviews of the paintings of 3 of the Great Ladies of Impressionism, Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, and Eva Gonzalès.
A quick self-portrait, two of her friend at that theatre, two children playing on a beach, and her first prints made using Soft Ground etching.
Completed her training in about 1553, met Michelangelo in Rome in 1554, where she became an established portraitist, invited to the court of King Philip II of Spain, advised the young van Dyck, and died in her early 90s.
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