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previous round: https://www.behindthename.com/bb/game/5558560
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This Round: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

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Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt. Her mother, Marie-Joséphine-Cornélie Thomas, was the great-niece of Jean-Honoré Fragonard, one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime.

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It was commonplace for daughters of bourgeois families to receive art education, so Berthe and her sisters Yves and Edma were taught privately by Geoffroy-Alphonse Chocarne and Joseph Guichard. In 1857 Guichard, who ran a school for girls in Rue des Moulins, introduced Berthe and Edma to the Louvre gallery where from 1858 they learned by copying paintings. The Morisots were not only forbidden to work at the museum unchaperoned, but they were also totally barred from formal training.

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She was never pleased with her work and she destroyed nearly all of the artworks she produced before 1869. Because she was a female artist, Morisot's paintings were often labeled as being full of "feminine charm" by male critics, for their elegance and lightness. In 1890, Morisot wrote in a notebook about her struggles to be taken seriously as an artist: "I don't think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that's all I would have asked for, for I know I'm worth as much as they."

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Choose your favourite Berthe Morisot painting

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1) Hide and Seek (1873)

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2) Grain Field (c. 1875)

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3) Summer's Day (1879)

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4) Eugene Manet and His Daughter in the Garden (1883)

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5) On a Bench (1889)

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6) Young Woman Picking Oranges (1889)

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7) Young Girl with a Bird (1891)

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8) Studying the Violin (1893)

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THE NEXT GENERATION

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- Optional second middle name starts with the letter B

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Links are optional

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1) Child two, a daughter
- Her first name and middle name are in the top 150, France, 1931 (https://www.behindthename.com/top/lists/france/1931)

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2) A child of your choice, a daughter
- Her first name is the name of a dancer (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/dancers)
- Her middle name is the name of an opera singer (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/opera_singers)

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3) Child three, a daughter
- Her first name ends in the letters “ET” or “ETTE”
- Her middle name is from the Luxembourgish grand-ducal family (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/luxembourgish_grand-ducal_family)

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4) A child of your choice, a daughter
- His first name and middle name are names of models (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/feminine/tag/models)

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5) Child five, a son
- His first name and middle name are surnames (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/masculine/tag/surnames)

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6) Child one, a son
- His first name is related to healthcare (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/masculine/tag/healthcare)
- His middle name contains the letters “AN” somewhere in the middle (so doesn’t start nor end with them)

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7) Child four, a son
- His first name and middle name are Medieval (https://www.behindthename.com/names/gender/masculine/tag/medieval)

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8) Child six, a son
- His first name contains the letter “X”
- His middle name is a Biblical place name (https://www.behindthename.com/names/tag/biblical_places)

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formerly Belphoebe

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I am in the mood
to dissolve
in the sky.
- Virginia Woolf

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