Here are some pictures from a very short 2 day visit to Paris. We stayed on the outskirts of town and really enjoyed walking down the market street, Levis which was near our hotel. We also went to what is supposed to be the world's largest flea market. We had a lot of fun and picked up a few paintings along the way.
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<p>Berthe Morisot<br />
Oil on canvas<br />
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For her self-portrait, Morisot struck an emblematic pose, her bust in profile, her face turned towards the viewer, as if walking past us. She treated it as a pochade, a term that referred to "free or swiftly sketched efforts." This evoked the taste among 18th-century art lover for the sketch form.*<br />
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From the exhibition<br />
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Berthe Morisot and the Art of the 18th Century<br />
(18 October 2023 to 3 March 2024)<br />
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Morisot's work, which flourished mainly in the 19th century, reflects a fascination with modern life. However, many during her lifetime drew parallels between her work and that of the great French masters of the 18th century. It's no coincidence that Renoir described her as "the last elegant, feminine artist we've had since Fragonard". Paul Girard, at the artist's posthumous retrospective in 1896, had no hesitation in asserting: "This is the eighteenth century modernized".<br />
The exhibition at the Musée Marmottan Monet focuses on this idea, presenting a series of carefully selected works. It invites us to discover the imprint of the eighteenth century on Morisot's work, juxtaposing her emblematic paintings with those of major figures such as Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard and Perronneau. A unique opportunity to understand the resonances between Impressionism and the Age of Enlightenment, and to plunge into the rich and complex world of Berthe Morisot.<br />
[*Musée Marmottan Monet]<br />
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Taken in Musée Marmottan Monet <br />
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The mansion built for François Christophe Edmond Kellermann, duke of Valmy, who purchased the land (formerly a pleasure garden) in 1863; in 1882 it was sold to Jules Marmottan, inherited by his son Paul Marmottan in 1883. Marmottan decorated the building in the Empire style ("Le Style Empire"), bequeathing it and his collection to Académie des Beaux-Arts, on his death in 1932. Between 1940-7 Victorine Donop de Monchy donated her father's collection of Impressionist painting and then, in 1966, more than 100 Monets (including a number of large Water Lilies) were bequeathed by Michel Monet (son of Claude Monet).<br />
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In the 16th arrondissement<br />
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The mansion built for François Christophe Edmond Kellermann, duke of Valmy, who purchased the land (formerly a pleasure garden) in 1863; in 1882 it was sold to Jules Marmottan, inherited by his son Paul Marmottan in 1883. Marmottan decorated the building in the Empire style ("Le Style Empire"), bequeathing it and his collection to Académie des Beaux-Arts, on his death in 1932. Between 1940-7 Victorine Donop de Monchy donated her father's collection of Impressionist painting and then, in 1966, more than 100 Monets (including a number of large Water Lilies) were bequeathed by Michel Monet (son of Claude Monet).<br />
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In the 16th arrondissement</p>](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/54437382944_cf8fd80c5a_s.jpg)
