![]() ![]() All of these women practiced and supported Impressionism from its earliest days, when it was still a popular sport to deride it. Even Degas himself, notoriously misogynistic, invited Mary Cassatt to exhibit with him (she was the only American to do so) and Marie Bracquemond also exhibited at the Impressionist exhibitions of 1879, 18, despite the discouragement of her husband. ![]() The female members of the nineteenth-century Impressionist movement are usually painted out of official art history, although Edouard Manet, for one, testified to the talents of his friends Berthe Morisot (whose "Harbor at Lorient" of 1869 he so admired that she gave it to him) and Eva Gonzalès (the only pupil Manet ever took), and discussed matters of painting with them as readily as with male peers like Edgar Degas. ![]()
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