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.
Berthe Morisot
The Mother and Sister of the Artist (1869/70). Depicting Marie-Joséphine and Edma.
Grain field (c. 1875), Musée d'Orsay
The Cradle (1872), Musée d'Orsay
Mary Stevenson Cassatt was an American painter and printmaker. She was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, but lived most of her adult life in France, where she befriended Edgar Degas and exhibited with
Berthe Morisot
…by art critic Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of Les trois grandes dames, 'The three great ladies', of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. Morisot was born on 14 January 1841, in Bourges, France, into an affluent bourgeois family. Her father, Edmé Tiburce Morisot, was the prefect (senior…
Cassatt seated in a chair with an umbrella, 1913. Verso reads "The only photograph for which she ever posed."
Young Woman in a Black and Green Bonnet, c. 1890, Princeton University Art Museum
The Boating Party by Mary Cassatt, 1893–94, oil on canvas, 35½ × 46 in., National Gallery of Art, Washington
The Tea by Mary Cassatt, 1880, oil on canvas, 25½ × 36¼ in., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston