Edma Morisot (Marie Edma Caroline Morisot-Pontillon); French artist and the older sister of the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot.... According to Armand Forreau's 1925 biography of Berthe Morisot, Guichard is said to have warned their mother: "With natures like those of your daughters my teaching will not confer the meagre talent of genteel accomplishment, they will become painters. Do you have any idea what that means? In your milieu of the grande bourgeoisie it would be a revolution." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edma_Morisot) Edma Morisot and her younger sister Berthe were raised in a cultured and prosperous French family in a time time when painting was one of the accomplishments deemed necessary to the complete education of a young lady. However, this principle ran a bit amok in the Morisot household, where rather than simply a polite accomplishment painting became a career choice. In this, unusually, they were supported and encouraged by their parents. The Morisot family were said to be related to the Ancien Régime painter Jean-Honoré Fragonard and perhaps the Morisot parents simply assumed that "blood will out." Edma's abbreviated career was entwined with that of her more famous sister Berthe. What can be found of Edma's work online appears to be mainly Barbizon-style landscapes, which is not unexpected considering that both girls were taught for a time by Camille Corot. His stylistic influence on Edma's work was very strong. The two artists enjoyed a close and mutually supportive relationship, but their artistic collaboration came to an end in 1869 when Edma married Adolphe Pontillon, a naval officer. At that juncture Edma decided to forgo her artistic career and concentrate solely on family life. After her marriage she still occasionally posed for her sister, and although she apparently did indeed find great fulfillment in her domestic life, she may have had.... (http://womenintheactofpainting.blogspot.nl/2012/11/edma-and-berthe.html) undefined

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