Marie Bracquemond

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

Beneath the Lamp 1887 Marie Bracquemond

“Impressionism has produced . . . not only a new, but a very useful way of looking at things. It is as though all at once a window opens and the sun and air enter your house in torrents.”
- Marie Bracquemond

Controversy over the lack of work by women in the recent exhibition “Discovering the Impressionists - Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting” led us to explore in more depth the four most remembered female impressionists working at the origin of the movement. We profiled the work of Marie Bracquemond, Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot and Eva Gonzalès in an article called “Discovering the Female Impressionists.”

Each of their stories is fascinating, especially that of Marie Bracquemond (1840 - 1916). Sadly, she abandoned her work in her early fifties at the urging of her husband, artist Félix Bracquemond.

Unlike the other female Impressionists…