The great niece of Rococo artist Jean-François Fragonard, she learnt to draw by the common practice of copying pictures at the Louvre.
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot
Female Impressionist painters: Berthe Morisot with woman and child on balcony. Woman in black looking over balcony at scene of Venic lagoon, with small child beside her in white dressBerthe Morisot: Woman and Child on the Balcony. Public domain Artizon Museum
Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (January 14, 1841-March 2, 1895). The great niece of Rococo artist Jean-François Fragonard, she learnt to draw by the common practice of copying pictures at the Louvre. In 1861 she met Camille Corot and took up plein air painting.