Career
She is the niece of Berthe Morisot and Eugène Manet, the brother of Édouard Manet, taught her lessons in painting as part of her education upon being orphaned at an early age. Relatively unknown in the art scene contrary to her relatives, she exhibited with the Société des Indépendants, respectively in 1904 and in 1926. Born in the town of Quimperlé, in the southern coast of the region of Brittany of France.
She is the eldest daughter of Théodore Gobillard (1833–1879) and Yves Morisot (1838–1893), the sister of Berthe Morisot, the noted female Impressionist painter.
She had two siblings namely, Marcel and Jeanne. Impressed by her Impressionistic tutelage, she painted the everyday life of children, women and the outdoors with the tenderness of light pastels notably in the depiction in her still-lifes of flowers in their vases.
She also drew upon the color hues from her other mentor, Pierre-Auguste Renoir who brought sensuality to the style of Impressionism. Renoir would often implore the Gobillard sisters to pose for him as models and teach them on the side, painting during his encounters in the southern coast of France, notably in Brittany.
Gobillard continued painting and lived until 1946, when she died in Paris.
In 1983, then-Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos reportedly bought fifty-two paintings of Gobillard for United States$273,000 (United States$640,14114 in 2013 dollars) from the Hammer Galleries, a New York-based art gallery as part of her extravagant overseas spending sprees during her husband"s political reign. The dealer who was connected to the purchase stated, "lieutenant was a nice way to get rid of paintings you didn"t want". The paintings are presently being litigated by the Presidential Commission on Good Government until the present day.