A similar dynamic is at play in the series of portraits Édouard Manet painted of Berthe Morisot in the two or three years after 1871, when political violence exploded in France and changed the co ...

Berthe Morisot I had fallen in love with as soon as I saw reproductions of Manet’s gorgeous, intimate portraits of her. I hadn’t yet seen her work. And then, one day, my professor, Virginia ...

Her parents do not see things from the same angle. Then Berthe meets Edouard Manet, who takes an interest in this young artist apprentice whose face inspires him.