The special connection between French painters Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot is legendary in the art history canon. Championed as the proverbial “painter of modern life,” Manet quoted from masterworks of the past to critique and update the academic system for the emerging modern era. A founding member of the Impressionist group, Morisot also broke boundaries, as the only woman to exhibit in the paradigm-changing first Impressionist exhibition in 1874 and as a prolific painter who left a legacy of hundreds of works.
With the current “Manet & Morisot” exhibition in mind, art historian Matthew Palczynski unpacks their mutual admiration, from their first documented encounter at the Louvre in 1868 to their 15-year artistic and personal relationship.
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