Ladies Gathering Flowers
- Original dimensions
- 73.5 x 61 cm
- Museum
- Nationalmuseum
- Year
- 1880
Scene depicted
This canvas immerses us in an intimate scene where ladies, elegant and delicate, are busy picking flowers. Each of them seems enveloped in a halo of serenity, capturing the precious moment where the natural and the refined meet. A painting, a story, a life shared in visual harmony.
Historical context
Created in 1880, the painting "Ladies Picking Flowers" by Berthe Morisot is part of the impressionist movement, a vibrant reflection of an era where light and color explored new pictorial dimensions. This canvas , exhibited in Stockholm, stands out not only for its generous dimensions but also for the artistic breath that animates it, an immersion in nature and daily life.
Place in the artist's career
"Ladies Picking Flowers" marks a phase of blossoming in the career of Berthe Morisot . This painting is situated between her early works such as "The Cradle" and her maturity, revealing both a growing technical mastery and a deep sensitivity, exalting the everyday and the simple pleasures of feminine life.
Anecdote
"Beauty lies in the fleetingness of moments," she once said, inspired by the sweetness of an ephemeral spring. The moment of capturing these ladies, in full communion with nature, must have been a breath for the artist's soul, an echo of what she was able to convey in her masterpiece .
Major exhibitions
fifth impressionist exhibition