According to Alfred Wolff, this woman exhibited alongside “five or six lunatics” at the First Impressionist Exhibition. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this Impressionist who rests her arm on a railing in Edouard Manet’s painting The Balcony. This artist also painted The Cradle and On the Terrace.
ANSWER: Berthe Morisot (“mor-EE-soh”) [or Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot]
[10e] This American Impressionist painted scenes of motherhood similar to Morisot’s, including in her painting The Child’s Bath.
ANSWER: Mary Cassatt [or Mary Stevenson Cassatt]
[10m] Impressionists including Morisot and Cassatt were greatly influenced by the art of this country, which led to a phenomenon known by a French term ending with the suffix -isme (“EEZ-muh”). Paintings from this country feature in the background of van Gogh’s painting Portrait of Père Tanguy.
ANSWER: Japan [or Nippon; or Nihon; accept Japonisme; accept Japonesque]
<Michael Bentley, Fine Arts - Painting - European 1600-1945> ~19874~ <Editor: Chandler West>