Impressionist painters Édouard Manet
Starting her career as mainly an academic painter, Bracquemond’s extremely refined Realist style was more in line with the ideals of Salon-approved artists and artworks. However, her style began to drastically shift after she met Impressionist painters Édouard Manet and Edgar Degas and she became more absorbed with the principles of Impressionism. By the 1880s, Bracquemond’s painting style and characteristics could only be explained as fully Impressionist.