Monday 29 April 2013

Berth Moriset

Berth Moriset
French
Cher 1841-1895 Paris
Impressionist

A successful bourgeois family
not the least dilatorilly
ancestor the great Fragonard
Rococo- the old guard.

Starts as a copyist at the louvre
befriends the great Manet
married his brother Eugene
a happily married scene.

Exhibited at the Salon de Paris
a young artistic draftee
struggling for many years
amongst her male peers.

Plein air her chosen theme
incorporates a family scene
Julie Manet her only child
painted adored beguiled.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MM-tHCOTVlk

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