Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight

Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight is an oil-on-canvas painting by French artist Berthe Morisot.

The painting depicts a man, Eugène Manet, relaxing at a hotel window, with vases visible on the parapet.

Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight is an Impressionist depiction of everyday life on an English Island.

Some scholars have interpreted Morisot's decision to paint from the privacy of the interior, hidden by a shear curtain, as a sign of the constraints imposed on women by the gender norms of the era.

Morisot was a major figure in Impressionism, but women faced obstacles that impacted their choice of subject matter.

[3] Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight suggests Morisot's restrained choice of location in showing the port and the streets of the island from the point of view of someone looking out a window.