Art Appreciation Lecture Series 2014
Realism to Surrealism: European art and culture 1848-1936
Impressionist Women
Lorraine Kypiotis
7/8 May 2014
Lecture summary:
Despite Academic restrictions and social pressures in the 19th century, women such as Berthe
Morisot (1841-1895), Eva Gonzales (1849-1883) and Mary Cassat (1844-1926) were able to forge
successful careers as painters within the avant-garde group known as the Impressionists. They
exhibited in both the Salon and the Impressionist shows with Berthe Morisot taking part in all the
Impressionist exhibitions except for 1879, the year she gave birth to her daughter.
Though their upper-class status prevented them from frequenting the Parisian café-concerts and
dance halls so often celebrated by their male colleagues, they did have access to everyday
subjects of middle-class leisure and domesticity that became the staples of many of the
Impressionists’ works.
Slide list:
1. Marie Bashkirtseff, Self-Portrait with a Palette (1880) Oil on canvas. Musee des Beaux
Arts, Nice
2. Marie Bashkirtseff, In the Studio (1881)Oil on canvas.188×154cm. Dnipropetrovsk State Art
Museum, Ukraine
3. Berthe Morisot La Berceuse (The Cradle) 1872 Oil on canvas, 56x46 cm Musée d'Orsay
4. Berthe Morisot, Study - The Water's Edge. (1864) Oil on canvas. 60x73.4 cm. Private coll.
5. Edma Morisot, Berthe Painting (aged 24) 1864. Oil on Canvas. Private Collection
6. Mary Cassatt, Self-portrait (c.1880) Watercolour on paper. NGA, Washingon, DC.
7. Berthe Morisot, Self-Portrait (c1885) Oil on Canvas.50 x 61cm. Musée Marmottan, Paris
8. Morisot, View from the Balcony (1871) Oil on Canvas. Private Collection
9. * Morisot, View from the Trocadero (1871-72) Oil on Canvas. 46.1x81.5 cm Santa Barbara
Museum of Art
10. Morisot, The Old track to Auvers (1863) Oil on canvas, 31x45cm. Private Collection
11. Morisot, Refuge in Normandy, (1865) Oil on canvas, 18.1x21.7cm Private Collection
12. Morisot, The Green Parasol (1873) Oil on Canvas. 46 x 71.8cm. Cleveland Museum of Art
13. Manet, Le Repos (1870) Oil on Canvas. 150.2x114cm. Rhode Island School of Design
14. Manet, Portrait of Morisot with Violets, (1872) Oil on Canvas. 55x40cm. . Musée d'Orsay
15. Manet, Berthe Morisot with a Fan (1872) Oil on Canvas 60 x 45 cm . Musée d'Orsay
16. Manet, Berthe Morisot Reclining (1873) Oil on Canvas 26x34cm. Musee Marmottan Monet,
Paris
17. Manet, Violets (1872) Oil on Canvas. 27x22cm. Private Collection
18. Manet, Le Balcon (c.1868-69) Oil on canvas.170x124.5cm.Musée d'Orsay
19. Morisot, Mother and Sister of the Artist (1869-70) Oil on Canvas 101 x 81.8cm. NGA
Washington DC.
20. Morisot, Harbour at Lorient (1869) Oil on Canvas 43.5 x 73 cm NGA Washington DC
21. Eva Gonzales, Self-portrait Oil on wood. 60.96 x 43.18 cm. Private Collection
22. Manet, Portrait of Eva Gonzales (1870) Oil on Canvas. 191.1 x 133.4cm. National Gallery,
London
23. *Eva Gonzales, Une Loge Aux Theatre des Italiens (c.1874) Oil on Canvas. 98x130cm.
Musée d'Orsay
24. Manet,Eva Gonzalès et Leon Leenhoff dans la Loge aux Théâtre Italiens(1873)Pastel.
60×73 cm. Priv. Coll.
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25. Renoir, La Loge (1874) Oil on Canvas. 80 cm × 63.5 cm Courtauld Gallery, London.
26. *Cassatt, In the Loge (1878) Oil on Canvas 81.28 x 66.04 cm. Museum of Fine Arts ,
Boston.
27. Cassatt,Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge (1879) Oil on Canvas
81.3x59.7cm.Oil.Philadelphia Museum of Art
28. Morisot, At the Ball (1875) Oil on Canvas 62 x 52 cm Musee Marmottan Monet.
29. Morisot, Boats under Construction (1874) oil on canvas Musee Marmottan Monet
30. Morisot,
(1875) oil on canvas 38.1 x 18.1 cm. Musee
Marmottan Monet
31. Morisot, Eugene Manet and His Daughter at Bougival (1881)Oil on canvas. 73x92cm
Musee Marmottan Monet
32. Morisot, On the Balcony of Eugene Manet's Room at Bougival (1881) Oil on canvas.
Private Collection.
33. Morisot, On the Veranda (1884) Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
34. Morisot, Child with a Red Apron (1886) Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
35. Morisot, Julie Manet and Her Greyhound(1893)Oil on canvas, 73x80cm Musée Marmottan
Monet, Paris
36. Morisot, Getting Up (1885-86) Oil on canvas. Private Collection.
37. *Morisot, The Bath (1885-86) oil on canvas 72.3 x 91.1 cm. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
38. Mary Cassatt, Young Mother Sewing (1900)Oil on Canvas.92.4 x 73.7cm The Metropolitan
Museum of Art.
39. Cassatt, Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (1880) Oil on Canvas 65.6 x 92.6 cm The
Metropolitan Museum of Art
40. *Cassatt, T C d’ Bath (1880) Oil on Canvas Los Angeles County Museum
41. Cassatt, The Bath (c.1893) Oil on Canvas 100.3 cm × 66.1 cm Art Institute of Chicago
42. Cassatt, Lady at the Tea Table (c.1883-85) Oil on canvas. 73.4x61cm. The Met. Museum,
NY
43. Cassatt, Portrait of Louisine Havemeyer (1896) Pastel on paper. Shelburne Museum VT.
44. Cassatt, Self-portrait (1878) Gouache on paper, 60.1 x 41.2 cm The Met. Museum, NY
45. Cassatt, Portrait of Alexander J. Cassatt (c.1888) Pastel on Paper.91x71cm. Crystal
Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas
46. Degas, Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery (1879-80) Etching 43.2 x 30.5 cm
The Met. Museum, NY
47. Cassatt, Little Girl in the Blue Armchair (1878) Oil on canvas. 89.5 x 129.8 cm NGA
Washington DC.
48. Cassatt, Reading Le Figaro (1878) Oil on Canvas, 104 x 84 cm Private collection
49. Cassatt, Susan on a Balcony Holding a Dog (c.1880) Oil on Canvas 110.3x644.7cm The
Corcoran Gallery.
50. Cassatt, Girl Arranging her hair (1886) Oil on canvas. 75.1 x 62.5 cm NGA, Washington DC
51. Degas, Portrait of Mary Cassatt Playing Cards (c.1880-84) Oil on Canvas 74 × 60 cm
National Portrait gallery, Washington DC.
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Reference:
Higonnet, Anne (1995) Berthe Morisot. Publ: University of California Press
Matthews, Nancy Mowll. Ed. (1984) Cassatt and her Circle: Selected Letters. Publ: Cross River
Press
Rouart, Denis (2007) Berthe Morisot: The Correspondence. Publ: Moyer Bell
Images:
Morisot, View from the Trocadero (1871-72) Oil on Canvas. 46.1x81.5 cm Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Morisot, The Bath (1885-86) oil on canvas 72.3 x 91.1 cm. Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
Eva Gonzales, Une Loge Aux Theatre des Italiens (c.1874) Oil on Canvas. 98x130cm. Musée d'Orsay
Cassatt, In the Loge (1878) Oil on Canvas 81.28 x 66.04 cm. Museum of Fine Arts , Boston.
Cassatt, T
C d’ B
(1880) Oil on Canvas Los Angeles County Museum