Berthe Morisot : 1841-1915 / Marianne Mathieu, curator.

At head of title: Musée Marmottan Monet - Académie des Beaux-Arts, Institut de France.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-263) and index.

On Berthe Morisot / Paul Valéry --Berthe Morisot : from wound to light / Jean-Marie Rouart --Watercolours, pastels and drawings in the work of Berthe Morisot / Marianne Mathieu --Catalogue of exhibited works / Paloma Alarcó, Emmanuelle Amiot-Saulnier, Marianne Mathieu, Mich{grave}ele Moyne, Pierre Pinchon --Catalogue of graphic works, Marmottan Monet Museum collection / Lauranne Neveu --Chronology / Marianne Mathieu.

"Berthe Morisot (1841-1895) was one of only a handful of women who exhibited both at the famed Paris Salon and with the French Impressionists. Her exquisite work depicts the world of the Parisian bourgeoisie: their clothes, their life-styles, their surroundings, and their relationships. Over one hundred full-color paintings, graphic works, watercolors, and pastels are reproduced in this volume, and are accompanied by original commentaries that follow the artist's career from her training with Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot to her final work. Included in the volume is an essay that Morisot wrote about her nephew-in-law Paul Valéry in 1948--a seminal text that has never been included in his collected works--as well as extensive correspondence and sketchbooks held at the Musée Marmottan Monet, which have rarely been accessible. Morisot has been hailed by historians as one of the forgotten women artists of the 19th century, and this volume helps to reveal her artistic influence on her better-known peers."--Amazon.com.