When institutional acclaim plucked French impressionist Berthe Morisot from relative obscurity six years ago, the tradition of situating her in relation to famed male colleagues like Renoir and Degas ...
Impressionism started out 151 years ago out as a rebellious movement, derided by critics, but it’s box office gold these days, and museums worldwide celebrated its sesquicentennial with major ...
A new book by Sebastian Smee, the Washington Post art critic and former contributor to The Art Newspaper, tells the story of the Siege of Paris and the subsequent Commune through the eyes of the ...
The extraordinarily close artistic relationship of the Realist Edouard Manet (1832-1883), who is often described as the father of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), a crucial, ...
Installation view of "Manet & Morisot" at the de Young Museum, San Francisco, 2025. Photograph by Gary Sexton. Image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco It’s possible to have a lifetime ...
Captivated by Morisot after an exhibition at the Orsay, I set about trying to find traces of her that remain in Paris today. World News Editor PARIS—From the time that Édouard Manet first met Berthe ...
Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. In 1864, the year Édouard Manet painted his dead bullfighter, a gleaming ...
The French painter’s ‘Repose’ was once described as ‘a lesson in how to love’ Forty years ago, the art critic Peter Schjeldahl wrote that “art love is attained, or contracted, through a series of ...