The next best-known female Impressionist after Mary Cassatt, Morisot seemed to have borrowed a little something from just about all of her Impressionist contemporaries.
The next best-known female Impressionist after Mary Cassatt, Morisot seemed to have borrowed a little something from just about all of her Impressionist contemporaries. Starting out by doing watercolors and drawings, she eventually transitioned to oil painting, for which he developed a light, almost feathery, style characterized by rapidly applied, sinuous stokes. (Her brushwork most closely resembles that of late Manet, and in fact, she was married to Manet’s older brother, Eugène.) As with Cassat, women served as a main subject for Morisot, along with landscapes. She died from pneumonia, contracted while nursing her 16-year-old daughter through a bout of the same illness.