Morisot, Berthe - Summer's Day - Medici art postcard

Art Postcard
• Work of art title:  Summer's Day
• Artist (if known):  Berthe Morisot (1841-95)
• Media or other details:  oil on canvas
• Publisher / Gallery: Medici Society / National Gallery, London
• Postally used:  no - written but not posted
• Stamp & postmark details (if relevant): na 
• Size: modern
• Notes & condition details:

NOTES:

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All postcards are not totally new and are pre-owned. It's inevitable that older cards may show signs of ageing and use, particularly sent through the post. Any faults other than normal ageing are noted.

Stock No.: A421

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information:

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Berthe Morisot (January 14, 1841 � March 2, 1895) was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of ""les trois grandes dames"" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.^[1]

In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Salon de Paris. Sponsored by the government, and judged by academicians, the Salon was the official, annual exhibition of the Acad�mie des beaux-arts in Paris. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons^[2] until, in 1874, she joined the ""rejected"" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions, which included Paul C�zanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. It was held at the studio of the photographer Nadar.

She became the sister-in-law of her friend and colleague, �douard Manet, when she married his brother, Eug�ne.

Morisot was born in Bourges, Cher, France, into a successful bourgeois family. According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien r�gime, Fragonard,^[3] whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters. Both Berthe and her sister, Edma Morisot, chose to become painters.^[4]

Berthe Morisot's family moved to Paris when she was a child. Once Berthe settled on pursuing art, her family did not impede her career. She registered as a copyist at the Louvre. By age twenty, she had met and befriended the important, and pivotal, landscape painter of the Barbizon School, Camille Corot, who excelled in figure painting as well. The older artist instructed Berthe and her sister in painting and introduced them to other artists and teachers. Under Corot's influence, Morisot took up the plein air method of working.

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period=1945 - present