Berthe Morisot, artist, was for a time a pupil of Corot. Later she met Edouard Manet, whose brother Eugène she married in 1874. From the same year, she exhibited with the Impressionists. (Source : The National Gallery, UK). This acrylic painting is based on a photograph of Berthe Morisot c 1870.
Photograph and earlier versions of the painting
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