# Chasing Butterflies

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MORISOT, Berthe](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e>)
- Date: 1851-1900
- Technique: Oil on canvas, 46 x 56 cm

## Commentary

Berthe Morisot enjoyed a lengthy and successful career. Free of material worries, though not of the duties of a wife and mother, she was able essentially as she pleased. Her paintings, which became increasingly unstrained in style, were predominantly impressions of happy family life or togetherness, or of the cultured, stylish life of her family and friends.

## Related artworks

- [At the Ball](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/at-the-ball-rc5dfa8ec230268>)
- [Hide and Seek](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/hide-and-seek-ree29ade1044ebe>)
- [Hortensia, or The Two Sisters](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/hortensia-or-the-two-sisters-r0ce50283e19a71>)
- [In the Grass](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/in-the-grass-r33ab8264566e1c>)
- [Julie Manet and Her Greyhound](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/julie-manet-and-her-greyhound-r925db69812415c>)
- [On a Bench in the Bois de Boulogne](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/on-a-bench-in-the-bois-de-boulogne-r0be1e320e32a5a>)
- [On the Balcony](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/on-the-balcony-r26f201cb433e0e>)
- [Pasie Sewing in the Garden](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/pasie-sewing-in-the-garden-r660850738404ac>)
- [Portrait of Madame Pontillon](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/portrait-of-madame-pontillon-rebb268efca9eaa>)
- [Summer Day \(Bois de Boulogne\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/summer-day-bois-de-boulogne-r2864b73404a329>)
- [Summer](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/summer-r7eb2fdcde0bca7>)
- [The Artist&#39;s Mother and Sister \(Reading\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/morisot-berthe-re200c4216cc92e/the-artists-mother-and-sister-reading-r8ca710e07e0eb6>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)