BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

Thanks for downloading this episode of In Our Time.

There's a reading list to go with it on our website, and you can get news about our

programs if you follow us on Twitter at BBC In Our Time.

I hope you enjoyed the programs.

Hello, Bert Morisseau, 1841 to 1895, was an influential painter at the heart of the

French Impressionist movement.

While the men in her circle could freely paint in bars, brothels, public spaces, and in

the case of Edouard Manet, paint Morisseau herself many times, she captured the domestic world.

Her works shows women as they were to her, informal, unguarded, not transformed or distorted

for the eyes of men.

And when it came to the new, fresher ways to paint, Morisseau stood out for her dairy.

Women discussed about Morisseau are Tom Angarm, professor of history of art at University

College London, Clamaran, reader in French and Queens University

Belfast, and Louis Oliver, curator at the Royal Academy and joint professor of art

history at the American University of Notre Dame London.

Louis, what do you we know about Bert Morisseau's family in her early years?

Bert Morisseau was born on the 14th of January 1841 into a well-to-do French family.

Her father was a high-ranking civil servant, and her mother also came from a family of public

officials.

She had two elder sisters, Eve and Edma, and their younger brother, Teebus, was born four

years later in 1845.

...