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Berthe Morisot

1841–1895 · painter · France

Arts and ideas48 years old in 1889

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, 1890s

Who governs
The Republic lives through scandal after scandal: Panama in 1892, then the Dreyfus affair.
Everyday life
Electric light, the bicycle craze and, from 1898, the digging of the first metro line change city life.
Arts and ideas
Montmartre cabarets, Toulouse-Lautrec's posters, and in 1895 the Lumière brothers' first film screenings.
Meanwhile
Britain is at the height of Queen Victoria's empire, and Japan has just defeated China in 1895.

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, 1889

PCPaul Cézanneaged 50ARAuguste Rodinaged 49CMClaude Monetaged 49ÉZÉmile Zolaaged 49GCGeorges Clemenceauaged 48CDClaude Debussyaged 27MCMarie Curieaged 22MPMarcel Proustaged 18CCCoco Chanelaged 6

Meanwhile, elsewhere in 1889

EDEmpress Dowager Cixiaged 54 · ChinaLXLu Xunaged 8 · ChinaWCWinston Churchillaged 15 · BritainQVQueen Victoriaaged 70 · BritainEMEmperor Meijiaged 37 · JapanIHItō Hirobumiaged 48 · 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.