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Berthe Morisot on Art

1841–1895 France

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My ambition is limited to capturing something transient.

..the glimpse of the dome of St. Paul's through the forest of yellow masts, the whole thing bathed in a golden haze.

Corot spoiled the 'étude' [sketch] we admired so much when we saw it at his home, by redoing it in the studio.

The tall fellow Bazille has done something I find quite fine: a young girl [in his painting 'View on the village' ] in a very light dress in the shadow of a tree beyond which one sees a town. There is a good deal of light, sunlight, He is trying to do what we [Berthe and her sister Edma] have so often tried to bring off: to paint a figure in the open air. This time I think he has succeed.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Berthe Morisot (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.