Table of Contents

Preface

I
FORMATION
1841-1868

1 Family Background · 1841-1857
2 First Lessons · 1857-1867
3 Contacts· 1859-1867

II
DECISIONS
1868-1871

4 Encounters and Partings · 1868-1869
5 Alternatives · 1869-1871
6 Political Crisis · 1870-1871

III
ALLIANCES
1872-1874

7 Personal Crisis · 1870-1872
8 Resolutions · 1872-1874
9 Joining the Impressionist Movement· 1873-1874
10 The First Impressionist Exhibition · 1874
11 Eugene Manet
12 Artistic Events
13 A New Bond

IV
ALLIANCE
1875-1878

14 Impressionism Comes of Age
15 Fulfillment· 1878-1883

v
ENDURANCE
1883-1895

16 Loss · 1883-1886
17 La Grande Dame de Ia Peinture · 1884-1891
18 Art Closer to Home and Farther Abroad
. 1885-1891
19 Bereavement and Acclaim· 1892-1894
20 Summation · 1895

Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Illustrations

About the Author

Anne Higonnet is Associate Professor of Art History at Wellesley College and the author of Berthe Morisot's Images of Women (1992).

Reviews

"A memorable portrait of an admirable woman, as elegantly simple and light in touch as a Manet, or a Morisot."--"Entertainment Weekly