Summer's Day

Summer's Day
Artist Berthe Morisot
Year 1879
Medium Oil on canvas
Dimensions 45.7 cm × 75.2 cm (18.0 in × 29.6 in)

Summer's Day is a painting by French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot. The painting depicts two women seated in a row boat, and was painted in the Bois de Boulogne.[1] It is currently held by the National Gallery, having been donated by Hugh Lane.[2] The painting was stolen from the Tate by two Irish students while it was on display there in order to protest the Lane Bequest. It was later returned after being left anonymously at the Irish Embassy.[3]

Painting technique

Morisot employed a rather unusual palette in this painting.[4] She painted the dark blue coat of the woman on the right with cerulean blue which was rarely used by the Impressionists. The green foliage is painted in a mixture of emerald green, viridian, lead white and cadmium yellow. Cadmium yellow was not yet widely used at this time.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Spence, Rachel (1 May 2012). "Berthe Morisot, Musée Marmottan-Monet, Paris". Financial Times. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  2. ↑ "Summer's Day". The National Gallery. Retrieved 29 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Moroney, Mic (Summer 2008). "Impressions from Hugh Lane". Irish Arts Review. 25 (2).
  4. ↑ Bomford D, Kirby J, Leighton, J., Roy A. Art in the Making: Impressionism. National Gallery Publications, London, 1990, pp. 176-181.
  5. ↑ Illustrated pigment analysis of B. Morisot , 'A Summer Day', at ColourLex


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