“I am keen to earn some money.... beginning to lose all hope... What I see most clearly is that my situation in impossible from every point of view.”

— Berthe Morisot

quote in her letter to sister Edma, circa 1872/73, after Manet had forgotten to show one of her paintings to art-dealer Durand-Ruel; as cited in The Correspondence of Berthe Morisot, with her family and friends, Denish Rouart - newly introduced by Kathleen Adler and Tamer Garb; Camden Press London 1986, pp. 89-90
1871 - 1880

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painter from France 1841–1895

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