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The XIXth Century
BIOGRAPHY
MARGUERITE AROSA (1854 – 1903)
Réf. 3172
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
DIMENSIONS :
– 168 x 126 cm (190 x 150 cm cadre inclus)
– 66 1/8 x 49 5/8 in. (74 3/4 x 59 in. framed)
PROVENANCE : Private collection
EXHIBITIONS :
– French Salon, 1884
– Museum-Castle of Auvers sur Oise: “Au Fil de l’Eau”, April-May 2006
LITERATURE :
– Catalogue of the French Salon, 1884. Presented under n°41.
– Bénézit, “Dictionnaire des peintres”, Gründ, 1999
This “Bather” is cited among the most famous works of Marguerite Arosa. This work was exhibited at the Brussels Salon as well as at the Salon des Artistes français in Paris in 1884. Made with the greatest finesse, in a neo-classical style borrowed from naturalism, this young and beautiful naiad seems suspended in the air. The luxuriant vegetation of this summer day, the flowers, the water lilies and the dragonflies add to this composition a charm that is both sensual and mysterious.
