Postcard MORISOT - On a bench in the Bois de Boulogne, 1894

IC013140
Oil on canvas. H. 38.2; W. 55.3 cm. Paris, Musée d'Orsay.
© Photo Musée d'Orsay, dist. Rmn- Grand Palais /P. Schmidt.
© Rmn - Grand Palais, Paris 2023
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Characteristics

Dimensions
10,5 x 15 cm
Material of the original work
Huile sur toile
Material
Paper
Maintenance
Store in a dry place, protected by a case or plastic bag
Artist
Berthe Morisot (1841-1895)
Art movement
Art Nouveau
Reference
IC013140
EAN
3336729236176
Package Dimensions
10cm x 15cm
Editor
© Photo Musée d’Orsay
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.