Morisot

The emphasis on men’s daily lives is very unusual, given the prominence of women as subject matter in scores of paintings of the period by Manet, Degas, Morisot, Monet, Renoir, Cassatt and more of his Impressionist friends and colleagues in Paris.

But she had not yet begun to fraternize with the likes of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Berthe Morisot were making their first forays into Impressionism.

His brisk, loosely brushed manner was so far ahead of its time that only in the 19th century did such Impressionists as Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot catch up with him.

On one side of the doorway is a small, pleasant and routine urban landscape from the early 1870s by Berthe Morisot, a gifted painter who was just then working toward the translucent light and color that would later characterize her best Impressionist work.