Earrings Ball dress

Earrings Ballroom toilet

BW400486
Earrings with Swarovski rhinestones, inspired by Berthe Morisot's painting "Young woman in a ball dress" (1879).

No one can describe Berthe Morisot better than Paul Mantz, one of the first art critics to have noticed the artist : "Madame Morisot excels in mixing fine pale colours. She paints the portrait...
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Characteristics

Maintenance
Avoid contact with water, chemicals and cosmetics
Materials
Brass, Rhinestone
Artist
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Art movements
19th century, Impressionism
Reference
BW400486
EAN
3336729160112
Model dimensions
1.4cm x 1.4cm
Package Dimensions
0.6cm
Packaging
M Pouch 70x75mm
Conservation museum
Paris - Musée d'Orsay

The work and its artist

Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)

A major figure in Impressionism, Berthe Morisot remains less well known today than his friends Monet, Degas and Renoir. Yet she was immediately recognized as one of the group's most innovative artists. Painting after a model allows Berthe Morisot to explore several themes of modern life, such as the intimacy of bourgeois life, the taste for resorts and gardens, the importance of fashion, women's domestic work, while blurring the boundaries between interior/exterior, private/public, finished/unfinished. For her, painting must strive to "fix something of what is going on". Modern subjects and speed of execution therefore have to do with the temporality of representation, and the artist is tirelessly confronted with the ephemeral and the passage of time. Thus his latest works, characterized by a new expressiveness and musicality, invite us to a melancholic mediation on these relationships between art and life.