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Berthe Morisot

1841–1895 · painter · France

Arts and ideas43 years old in 1884

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter, printmaker and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists.

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The world around them · Paris, 1870s

Who governs
The Third Republic is new and fragile. Monarchists hold a majority in parliament until 1877.
Everyday life
Most French people still live in the countryside. Paris is being rebuilt along Haussmann's wide boulevards.
Arts and ideas
The Impressionists show outside the official Salon, and Zola is writing his Rougon-Macquart novels.
Meanwhile
Germany has just united under Prussia, and Japan is racing to modernise.

Their life in their time

  1. 1841
  2. 18487 years old
  3. 185211 years old
  4. 185211 years oldCézanne and Zola meet at school
  5. 187029 years old
  6. 187433 years oldThe first Impressionist exhibitionexhibitor
  7. 187534 years oldCarmen opens at the Opéra-Comique
  8. 188645 years oldZola publishes L'Œuvre
  9. 189554 years oldDies

Connected to

Around them in France, 1884

VHVictor Hugoaged 82PCPaul Cézanneaged 45ARAuguste Rodinaged 44CMClaude Monetaged 44ÉZÉmile Zolaaged 44GCGeorges Clemenceauaged 43CDClaude Debussyaged 22MCMarie Curieaged 17MPMarcel Proustaged 13CCCoco Chanelaged 1

Meanwhile, elsewhere in 1884

EDEmpress Dowager Cixiaged 49 · ChinaLXLu Xunaged 3 · ChinaQVQueen Victoriaaged 65 · BritainWCWinston Churchillaged 10 · BritainIHItō Hirobumiaged 43 · JapanEMEmperor Meijiaged 32 · Japan

Step into their time

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877
StoryParis, 1870sA republic born out of defeat, and painters the Salon keeps rejecting.
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, At the Moulin Rouge, 1892–95
StoryParis, 1890sElectric light, cabarets, and a trial that tears France in two.
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