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 Berthe Morisot and Guy Orlando Rose Berthe Morisot was among the original French impressionists; her paintings were included in their first group exhibition in Paris in 1874. The Seine Valley at Mézy, on the left, characterizes her continuing interest, as an Impressionist, in painting landscapes under the effects of brilliant sunlight. The energetic, separate strokes of bright color that reveal the rapidity of Morisot's outdoor painting technique. The result was a swiftly realized composition that conveys, through a minimal application of form, structure, and color, the essence of the landscape under those particular atmospheric conditions. 
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By the 1890s impressionism had become the widely accepted artistic style practiced on both sides of the Atlantic.
Guy Orlando Rose was part of the second generation of American painters associated with impressionism. In 1904 he
settled in Giverny, an artists' colony that grew, initially, due to the presence of Claude Monet. In that
environment, Rose was under the influence of not only Monet, but of the numerous American painters working and
living there as well.
Rose shares Morisot's interest in painting the local French landscape with short, broken brushwork. In Rose's
Late Afternoon, Giverny, a hazy atmospheric light fills the background and a more sharply focused, sunny hilltop
occupies the foreground. Morisot's work appears to be a quickly rendered sketch, and Rose's canvas is a much more
solidly composed painting; however, both share an interest in capturing the fleeting effects of light over the
landscape.
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