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Nothing softens a bedroom like a painted surface. Peasant Girl among Tulips by Berthe Morisot arrives as a hand painted oil painting on canvas, offering the figurative detail, soft gradients, and tactile finish that portrait oil painting shoppers look for.
1890
Oil on canvas
64.2 cm (25.28 in.) x 71.7 cm (28.23 in.)
Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
In 1890, Morisot, her ailing husband, and their twelve-year-old daughter, Julie, spent half the year in Mézy, a village in the French countryside, where they hoped the fresh air would help restore Eugène’s health. Morisot painted Peasant Girl among Tulips that spring, seeing in the sturdy features of a French peasant girl, believed to be named Gabrielle Dufour, the fragile beauty of a tulip. Morisot consciously rhymed the swirling brushwork in the girl’s unadorned dress with the swirling forms of the tulip leaves. The wisps of hair curling away from her face are like spent tulip petals about to fall to the ground. Even the girl’s delightful oval face is shaped like a tulip blossom. Her hands, stained brown from working in fields, connect her to the rural French countryside, a virtuous place capable of producing lovely flowers and lovely young girls.
The first recorded owner of Peasant Girl among Tulips was Tadamasa Hayashi, a Japanese art dealer who is often credited with introducing Japanese woodblock prints to Western Europe. From Hayashi, the painting entered the collection of renowned art collector and connoisseur Théodore Duret, one of the most influential voices in Paris. Duret befriended several of the leading artists of the late nineteenth century and was the subject of portraits by both édouard Manet and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. His Manet and the French Impressionists was one of the earliest writings on the subject, illuminating the movement for people in France as well as England and the United States.
Peasant Girl among Tulips came into the Dixon collection in 1981, when it was purchased by our first director, Michael Milkovich. Twenty-seven years later, in 2008, we received a special companion for this painting, a sketch of the same subject by Morisot’s daughter, Julie Manet (pictured below). While her mother sketched and then painted this hardworking young woman, Julie, then just twelve years old, sat nearby and sketched the girl herself, using colored pencils to create a scene almost identical to that of her mother. Employing the same technique of quickly applying soft color in bold strokes, the Impressionist progeny proved her inherent talent and sensitivity to subtle changes in color seen that made her mother so successful as an artist.
The figurative subject is rebuilt stroke by stroke in oil, giving the finished canvas the depth expected of impressionist oil painting wall decor.
This is a genuine hand painted oil painting, not a canvas print. Our painters match the palette of Peasant Girl among Tulips by eye and build up the figurative forms in thin layers, which is what gives the finished portrait oil painting its luminosity.
Hang this portrait oil painting above a sofa, console, or bed to give a bedroom an instant focal point. Its impressionist palette works with both minimalist and period interiors, and the piece also makes a considered gift for housewarmings, weddings, and art lovers.
Order Peasant Girl among Tulips as a hand painted oil painting on canvas and add lasting impressionist character to your bedroom. Custom sizes, a digital proof before dispatch, and secure worldwide shipping are included.
| Size | Price |
|---|---|
| 20 X 24 in | $68.48 |
| 24 X 36 in | $106.48 |
| 30 X 40 in | $146.98 |
| 36 X 48 in | $195.48 |
| 48 X 72 in | $379.98 |
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