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The Four Women of Impressionism

In 1928 the art historian Henri Focillon called Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt and Marie Bracquemond the three great ladies of Impressionism; with Manet's pupil Eva Gonzalès they are now counted as its four women. Ingres told the young Bracquemond that women should keep to flowers, fruit and portraits, and Salon juries judged Gonzalès's work by whether it looked feminine enough. Each found a different way in: a famous teacher, a place in the independent exhibitions, or a husband's porcelain studio.

Sources: Wikipedia: Marie Bracquemondfamsf.orgWikipedia: Eva Gonzalès

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Eva Gonzalès grew up among writers: her father was a novelist and a president of the French writers' society. In February 1869, aged about twenty, she walked into Édouard Manet's studio as his model and stayed as his only pupil.

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Berthe Morisot and her older sister Edma learned to paint together and copied side by side in the Louvre. In 1869 Edma married a naval officer and gave up painting, and the two sisters kept up a long correspondence.

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Marie Bracquemond lived in Sèvres, outside Paris, with her husband Félix, a printmaker who designed porcelain. In April 1880 her work hung in the fifth Impressionist exhibition, and her younger half-sister Louise was her favourite model.

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