Jeune Fille Lisant (Girl Reading)

Pierre Bonnard

1930; printed posthumously 1965

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The Townland, Donegal, Ireland, Alen MacWeeney, Published by Hyperion Press Limited, gelatin silver print
This bust portrait of Madame de Berny is rendered with detailed facial features and a partially drawn upper body.
Half-length man seen through an architectural opening, his cloak spilling across the ledge and into the viewer's space. In his left hand is a portfolio with sheets of paper visible, while his right hand holds a stylus. He wears a typical painter's hat. The back of an easel is visible in the room behind the man.
The Madonna with the Christ Child in her arms is suspended in clouds above a group of six saints who look up at them.