"It was Corot who taught her [ Berthe Morisot, c. 1860-1864] to bathe in air her landscapes, her figures, her still-life compositions; it was he who taught her the difficult lesson of understanding values."

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It was who initiated the contact between Corot and the two young sisters Berthe and Edma in the 1850's. The Morisot family spent some time in the summer of 1861 in Corot's place in Ville d'Avray