Berthe Morisot was a French painter linked to the Impressionist movement. She studied painting very early, notably by copying the masterpieces of the Louvre with Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, where she met Fantin-Latour. It was through this painter that, later in 1868, she met Édouard Manet for whom she posed (The Balcony, Repose, Berthe Morisot with a Bouquet of Violets). She left the official Salon in 1874 to join the Independents (future Impressionists) led by Monet, Sisley, Renoir and participated with them in their first exhibition (under the name of Associated Anonymous Artists). The same year, she married Eugène Manet, brother of Édouard Manet, with whom she had a daughter, Julie Manet, in April 1879. With Camille Pissarro, she was the only artist whose paintings were presented at all Impressionist exhibitions (except that of 1879, the year of her daughter's birth). Like her American contemporary, Mary Cassatt, she often painted women, children, and family scenes. The artist found a way to capture the shimmering, the glows produced on things and the air that surrounds them… the pink, the pale green, the vaguely golden light, sing with an inexpressible harmony. No one represents Impressionism with more refined talent, with more authority than Madame Morisot.