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Child In A Red Apron (L’Enfant Au Tablier Rouge), Risd Museum, Maureen O'Brien
Child In A Red Apron (L’Enfant Au Tablier Rouge), Risd Museum, Maureen O'Brien
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This painting depicts Julie Manet, the seven-year-old daughter of the artist Berthe Morisot and her husband, Eugène Manet. She peers at a wintry landscape outside the family’s home in Paris, perhaps holding a prism to her eyes. The setting was Morisot’s bedroom, distinguished by a window whose small panes function as a compositional device that connects interior to exterior space. Across the canvas, a fluid net of slashing and spiraling marks rush through the room and animate Julie’s costume and pose. The vertical glint of a brass knob suggests that the window is ajar, introducing a breeze that lifts the …