Berthe Morisot - An Interview with Kathleen Adler

Kathleen Adler, author of a book on Morisot, is interviewed by Bryony Fer. Ms Adler describes the restrictions suffered by a woman artist in Paris in the 1860s and 1870s - Morisot was restricted as to the places she could go and therefore what she might paint. Her subject matter was life in the middle-class suburb of Passy in which she lived. Her special interest in the suburban world informs her painting View of Paris from the Trocadero, which can be seen as representing the relationship between suburb and center. Morisot's technique was close to that of the other Impressionists, but her subject matter is of special interest to us now.

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