Berthe Morisot was the
great-granddaughter of Fragonard. In the
Louvre, where she studied art, she met and soon became close friends with Édouard
Manet. For a long time she was a student
of Manet, and eventually she went on to marry Manet's brother Eugène. Her initial similarity in style to Édouard
Manet's art appears in works like this still life of a Tureen and Apple,
completed in 1877.
She paints her objects flat and
very upfront on the canvas, and she uses very quick, featherlike brushstrokes
to convey subjects with delicate levity.
Here it is just objects, but Morisot frequently liked to paint scenes in
the lives of women. Her approach to art
technique imitated Manet, but her approach to subject matter differed greatly.
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