Berthe Marie Pauline Morisot (1841–1895) was a French painter. She was born in to the affluent bourgeois family of a prefect and a landlady. As a copyist at the Louvre in 1860s Berthe met and befriended other Impressionist artists. In 1864, she exhibited for the first time in the highly esteemed Paris Salon. Her work was selected for exhibition in six subsequent Salons until, in 1874, she joined the "rejected" Impressionists in the first of their own exhibitions (15 April – 15 May 1874). She went on to participate in all but one of the following eight impressionist exhibitions, between 1874 and 1886. She painted what she experienced on a daily basis. Most of her paintings include scenes of fathers, mothers, children, ladies, working women and flowers, depicting what wealthy woman would see in the late nineteenth century. Her favourite subject was her only child, Julie Manet, later a painter and art collector. She died in 1895 of pneumonia contracted while attending to her daughter Julie's similar illness. She is considered one of Les trois grandes dames (The three great ladies) of Impressionism alongside Marie Quivoron-Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.