Doge’s Apartment
from 12 october 2024 to 23 February 2025

In April 1874, Berthe Morisot partecipade alongside Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro and Alfred Sisley in a collective exhibition featuring painters, sculptors, engravers and other artists. The event was organized independently of the official Salon, in the former studio of the photographer Nadar on the Boulevard de Capucines in Paris.

History has claimed it as the first Impressionist exhibition. Berthe Morisot was the only woman to take part, a distinction that earned her title of the first female Impressionist.

This exhibition retraces Berthe Morisot’s career, from her training to her final work reveals the key themes running through her oeuvre. An interpreter of modern life, Morisot was the painter of the Parisian woman. Her portraits of young girls in bloom became a leitmotif in her art. Morisot’s only daughter, Julie, occupies a special place in this context, reflecting the artist’s relationship with childhood.

The evolution of her pictorial practice becomes evident as the exhibition progress from room to room, mainly in chronological order. The artist’s palette lightens to the point of becoming pastel. Her style becames freer. Morisot, angel of the incomplete, established herself as an expert in the art of non finito and fa presto, withous abandoning drawing. For many her contemporaries, her work was the ultimate in Impressionism.

Tickets

online ticket

full 15€

reduced 13€

special reduced ticket for Members Card Ducale+ 11€

open ticket

Openings

monday, from 2 to 7 pm

Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday: from 9 am to 7 pm

friday: from 9 am to 8 pm

saturday from 10 am to 8 pm

sunday: from 10 am to 7 pm

the ticket office closes one hour early