Jan 142026
Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot was born today, January 14th, in 1841. She was part of a circle of artists that made up the Parisian avant-garde, including Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Édouard Manet (she married his younger brother).
The oil painting pictured above, Reading (La Lecture), 1888, is on view at Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in Florida.