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Meet the Artist: Berthe Morisot

Written by the Staff at Lyman Allyn Art
Berthe Morisot was born into a wealthy family and raised in the
city of Paris. In the mid-1800s, it was common for children of the
upper-class to be educated in art and Berthe and her sister took •Morisot was born on January
private art lessons. Morisot became an accomplished painter by 14, 1841 in Bourges, France;
age 23, at which time she entered two landscape paintings in a she died in 1895
major exhibition—the Salon de Paris. In addition to landscapes,
she also liked to paint women and domestic scenes; this was a •She lived and worked in
world that she was part of and understood in a way that male France
artists could not. She used loose, painterly brushstrokes, and lots
of pastel colors to give her works a soft and feminine feel. The •Style: Impressionism
Butterfly Hunt is a very playful painting, bringing to mind a game
of hide and seek or an afternoon of catching insects. Morisot often
asked family members to model for her paintings and her nieces
and sister served as models for this one. Imagine you are going to
make a painting: who would you like to use as a model and why?

a t i v e
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Ge Art Break!
Supplies needed: paper & pencil

Go on your own butterfly hunt!

Find an insect, butterfly or moth to
sketch. Think carefully about the
different patterns and colors you
see.

The Butterfly Hunt. 1874. Musée d’Orsay, Paris