Inventing Impressionism: Women painters and the birth of the Modern Movement

“This woman’s work is exceptional, too bad she is not a man." - Edouard Manet on the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot.

Often categorized as “technicians” or “ambitious seductresses” by the official Paris Salon, women painters were at the heart of the 19th century Impressionist movement. Now coming out of the shadows of art history, these innovative women present a world which is far more personal than that of their male peers, Monet, Renoir, and Cézanne. Join art expert Maria D’Amario while she explains how the culture of the Second French Empire shaped the unique careers and artistic styles of these talented artists. We will look at how Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, and Eva Gonzales -- three of the grandes dames of French painting -- challenged the ideas of the male-dominated Parisian art world and made Impressionism their own.  

This presentation will be followed by a Q&A

In person event in English.