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French painter

Edma Morisot (French: [mɔʁizo]; Marie Edma Caroline Morisot-Pontillon; 13 December 1839 – 2 May 1921) was a French artist and the older sister of the Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot.

Early life and education

Edma Morisot was born in 1839 in Valenciennes, France.^[1] Brought up largely in Paris, Edma Morisot received a bourgeois education, like her sisters Yves and Berthe, that included piano and drawing. All three sisters were encouraged to pursue drawing by their mother, who had them first study with the neoclassical painter Geoffroy Alphonse Chocane in 1857.^[2&#