Forgotten female Impressionist's art goes on display in Liverpool
Bracquemond, born in 1840, began to display her work at the prestigious Paris Salon as a teenager before meeting her painter and engraver husband Félix Bracquemond while in a job as a copyist at the Louvre.Her work was later influenced by Impressionism, an art movement that began in France in the second half of the 19th Century and was led by artists like Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir.The style of painting involved the use of vibrant colours, light and scenes of everyday life, and was a rejection of the traditional rules of painting taught in academies. Bracquemond exhibited her work in the Impressionist exhibitions of 1879, 1880, and 1886, but her husband "strongly disapproved" of her shift in style, a gallery spokeswoman said. Overlooked and overshadowed by her male peers, Bracquemond's promising career was "cut short due to her husband's disapproval", said Ms O'Donoghue.Later she was described by an art critic in 1894 as one of the three great ladies, or "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism, alongside alongside Mary Cassatt and Berthe Morisot. The Walker Gallery's collection of Impressionist works also includes pieces by Monet, Degas, Henri Matisse and Paul Cézanne.
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