The Writer As Explorer

The Cradle  This painting was created in 1872 by Berthe Morisot. It depicts her sister, Edma Portillon, watching over her baby daughter Blanche. This work has become one of Morisot’s most famous paintings but was not very well received when it was created. Morisot was unable to sell it and it stayed in the family, […]

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Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight This painting is of Eugène Manet looking out a hotel window at 2 passing women and a few boats at the shore. The work is by Berthe Morisot, who is the wife of the subject and the artist I am focusing on for my story. Morisot and Manet […]

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