Wooded Landscape

14 January 1841

Born

1861

Meeting Camille Corot

At twenty Berthe meets the famous Barbizon landscape painter Camille Corot. He gives her and her sister Edma private painting lessons and introduces them to other artists.

1864

The first showing at the Paris Salon

In 1864 Morisot exhibits for the first time at the Paris Salon, one of the most prestigious exhibitions in France. Her works are selected for six Salons in a row, until in 1874 she joins the “rejected” Impressionists.

1868

Meeting Édouard Manet

Henri Fantin-Latour introduces Morisot to Édouard Manet, who becomes her longtime friend and colleague. She often poses for him — among the portraits are “Repose” and “Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets” — and at Christmas he gives her an easel.

15 April – 15 May 1874

The first Impressionist exhibition: the only woman

The Salon rejects a work by Morisot — for the last time: she never submits anything to it again. Instead she joins the “rejected” painters — Cézanne, Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir and Sisley — at their first exhibition, in the studio of the photographer Nadar, showing ten works and remaining the only woman among the exhibitors; the Le Figaro critic Albert Wolff writes of “five or six lunatics, one of whom is a woman”.

2 March 1895

Died