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Morisot was born in Bourges, Cher, France, into a successful bourgeois family.

According to family tradition, the family had included one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien régime, Fragonard, whose handling of color and expressive, confident brushwork influenced later painters.

Both Berthe and her sister, Edma Morisot, chose to become painters.