Summer's Day (The Lake in the Bois de Boulogne)  1879

by Berthe Morisot

This is probably the painting that Morisot exhibited under the title 'The Lake in the Bois de Boulogne' in the fifth Impressionist exhibition, held in 1880. Intentionally sketchy in execution, it depicts two fashionable young women in a boat floating placidly on a lake. [url=http://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/berthe-morisot-summers-day]Read more... [The National G...
Size: 
45.7 x 75.2 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
This photographic reproduction is in the public domain (Wikimedia Commons)