THEhe story of Berthe Morisot is that of a non-conformist woman came into the world with the determination of Capricorn and the sensitivity of a Cancer ascendant. Born in the heart of the cultured Parisian bourgeoisie, she was the second of three sisters but was only linked to Edma by a common pictorial talent.
The father, too in an era when women painters were viewed with distrusthad them followed by master Guichard, after having built an atelier in the home garden. Behind her taciturn air Berthe hides the firmness of a Moon conjunct Mars in Libra which leads her to become the leader of all the Impressionists’ battles.
It is she who portrays her niece Blanche, Edma’s daughter, in the famous painting The cradle. To then exhibit, invited by Degas, as the only woman painter on 15 April 1874, the day of the birth of impressionism.
Berthe Morisot was born on 14 January 1841.
Uranus, in the house of success, lights up the flash of an avant-garde artist «I only love extreme novelty or things from the past». Thanks to the charm of Venus in Pisces it enchants Edouard Manet with whom a loving friendship is established. Later, she marries her brother Eugene Manet and their only daughter Julie is born from the union.
Faced with a rebellious temperament, Saturn reveals poor health. He passed away at the age of 54 following pneumonia.
But The cradle today at Orsay Museum remains his most famous work. Symbol of female complicity “where every daughter, mother, sister, single woman recognized herself”.
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