Morisot was the sister-in-law to Manet. Her impressionist paintings are really whatever, but I like
Reading. It's easy to feel the sunny day and the woman enjoying herself. Likewise, women reading was something of a revolutionary subject in mid 1800s France. Women did it, yet it wasn't much talked about or represented due to its implication of future book-learned women potentially--gasp--voicing opinions. Mary Cassatt liked reading, and driving, as activities for her female subjects. Much like Cassatt, Morisot's
Reading is revolutionary in its now everyday subject matter.
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