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From 1892 he worked full time as an illustrator & exhibited at the Royal Academy. From 1893 he illustrated books.
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Her final works are scintillating passages of white light caressed into glowing colour which chart the agency of women. In the Garden (1894), Laerte the Greyhound (1894), Sunset over a Lake (1894) & Portrait of Marcelle (1895). Search out her work!
Morisot’s art provides a window into the social changes of Bourgeois women in the 19th C & their evolving gain in autonomy. She died, sadly, before women got the vote. Little Girls At Window (1892), Two Nymphs (1892), Jeanne Pontillon (1893) & On the Balcony (1893)
Despite the immediacy of her oil paintings they are usually the product of drawings & watercolours outdoors before eager transfer to canvas. The Little Girl from Nice (1889), Orange Picker (1889), Before the Mirror (1890) & the Cherry Picker (1891)
The immediacy of her approach is apparent in these works. Her goal was to capture the moment & the light before it changed. Little Girl in a Garden (1884), Miss Reynolds (1884), On the Lake (1884) & On the Veranda (1884)
In her final decades her work dissolved into sparkling light. These are high points of the Impressionist movement. She differs from Cassatt in being more open & experimental. The Port of Nice (1882 & 1882), Beside a Lake (1883) & Manet & his Daughter in the Garden (1883)
The artist’s work is great art because of her technical genius, her observation of real life & her ability to share authentic emotion. Julie Manet & her Nurse (1880), The Dining Room of the Rouart Family (1880), The Wet Nurse (1880) & Woman Getting Dressed (c1880)
Academics dismissed Morisot until recently. They viewed her work as sentimental, thus allowing their own preconceptions to colour their (male) view. Woman in Black (1878), A Summers Day (1879), Women Picking Flowers (1879) & Young Woman Dressed for the Ball (1879)
Morisot’s philosophy was to paint light & dissolve colour into component parts for the eye to mix. Critics have described this as feathery brushstrokes but that is to miss her goal. The Psyche Mirror (1876), Woman with a Fan (1876), Tureen & Apple (1877) & Summer (1878)