La jeune femme à la mode est edma, sœur de l'artiste. Cependant, il ne s'agit pas d'un portrait; le propos de morisot était d'illustrer un sujet dans un environnement naturel, en extérieur. The fashionable woman seated in the foreground is the artist's sister, edma. However, the painting is not a portrait. Morisot's principal concern was to render a figure in a natural, outdoor environment. Edma's white dress-the prime vehicle for morisot's study of reflected light-is saturated with delicate lavender, blue, yellow, and rose tonalitites. Deftly executed with quick brushstrokes, the painting resounds with a feeling of freshness, vibrancy and delicate charm. "every day i pray that the good lord will make me like a child," morisot wrote, "that is to say, that he will make me see nature and render it the way a child would, without preconceptions. " morisot, the great granddaughter of the 18th-century french painter jean-honoré fragonard, selected this painting as one of her four works shown in the first impressionist exhibition of 1874. Object Type: painting. Genre: genre art. Date: 1868. Place of creation: France, 19th century. Dimensions: Framed: 74.3 x 100.3 x 12.1 cm (29 1/4 x 39 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.); Unframed: 46 x 71.8 cm (18 1/8 x 28 1/4 in.). Medium: oil on canvas, oil on fabric. Collection: Cleveland Museum of Art. L'ombrelle verte
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