The right one is set in the downstairs living room of their house. She painted women contemporarily as they are reading. Painted at the early stage of her career, this painting got its final touches by Manet. Oil on Canvas Her most famous painting, this painting is set in a harmonious and peaceful maternal air. The painter's sister, Edma Morisot, just gave birth to her second child.
Transparency pervades the whole painting and colors are softly blended.
The baby is only briefly sketched, while the mother seems to shelter her from the spectator. Oil on Canvas Painted from Morisot's own residence in a suburb of Paris, this is a cityscape from a high viewpoint. The two women at the foreground, probably the artist's neighbors, seem to be largely indifferent to the city, which is the man's world. The distance is rendered through different values of light at various layers in space. In the far background is the smoky and steamy cityview, an impression as if caught in a fleeting moment.