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Quote of her sister Edma, in a letter to Berthe, March/April 1869; from 'Morisot's Correspondence', p. 32; as cited by Margaret Sehnan in Berthe Morisot, the first lady of Impressionism; Sutton Publishing, 1996 - (ISBN 0 7509 2339 3), p. 79
• Edma married 8 March 1869 with Adolphe Pontillon [an early friend of Manet]; Edma was already 30. So the two sisters got separated.
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I am often with you, my dear Berthe, in my thoughts. I follow you everywhere in your studio and I wish that I could escape, were it only for one quarter of an hour to breathe again that air in which we lived for many years.

— Quote of her sister

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I am often with you, my dear Berthe, in my thoughts. I follow you everywhere in your studio and I wish that I could escape, were it only for one quarter of an hour to breathe again that air in which we lived for many years." in the context of "Quote of her sister Edma, in a letter to Berthe, March/April 1869; from 'Morisot's Correspondence', p. 32; as cited by Margaret Sehnan in Berthe Morisot, the first lady of Impressionism; Sutton Publishing, 1996 - (ISBN 0 7509 2339 3), p. 79
• Edma married 8 March 1869 with Adolphe Pontillon [an early friend of Manet]; Edma was already 30. So the two sisters got separated." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

Source: Wikiquote: "Berthe Morisot" (Quotes about Berthe Morisot: sorted chronologically, by date of the quotes about Berthe Morisot, 19th century) The 'What it means' explanation text was generated by Google Gemini Flash (accessed January 18, 2026). https://gemini.google.com/app

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Berthe Morisot

About Berthe Morisot

Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (14 January, 1841 – 2 March, 1895) was a French painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. Undervalued for over a century, possibly because she was a woman, she is now considered among the first league of Impressionist painters.