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Berthe Morisot Born Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot January 14, 1841 Bourges, Cher, France Died March 2, 1895 (aged 54) Paris, France Reprint for 2021 with minor changes in content and quality of images. As art students, Berthe and her sister Edma would spend hours in the Louvre copying the great works. Focusing on family life, Bertha Moriset portraits often feature her own daughter, Julie, from her marriage to Édouard Manet's brother, Eugène. One of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.