Founding Impressionist whose loose, silvery brushwork captured domestic life and gardens.
Serene
Intimate
Labor & Domesticity
Fun fact
She exhibited in seven of the eight Impressionist exhibitions, more than Monet did.
How she made it
Thin oil applied in long, unblended strokes over patches of bare priming, so the white ground acts as light. She painted alla prima, often outdoors and in one sitting, deliberately leaving edges unfinished so the picture keeps moving.
Work
The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935), ca. 1870
