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The life of female impressionist painter Berthe Morisot: posing for Manet and a new rival. Stars Sarah-Jane Holm.

Berthe poses for a portrait by Édouard Manet entitled Rest.

But she discovers his admiration is beginning to grow for another gifted painter, Eva Gonzales.

Jane Beeson's series looking at female impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot through her correspondence with her mother and sister.

Berthe ... Sarah-Jane Holm
Cornelie ... Pauline Munro
Manet ...Simon Chandler
Edma .... Alison Pettitt
Guichard .... Robert Lister
Woolf ... Ian Brooker

Directed at BBC Pebble Mill by Peter Leslie Wild.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2001.

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