Nu languid.

Oil on canvas signed lower left.

Dimensions: 54 x 65 cm, with frame: 76 x 87 cm.

 Much sensuality emanates from this pretty nude of a woman with a blond helmet, languid eyes and rosy cheeks, who abandons herself completely to the painter's eye in her setting of fabrics, cushions and silks.

 The subject, the oval format, the decoration of the toile de Jouy evoke for us the gallant and libertine scenes of the paintings of XVIIIth century by Boucher and Fragonard.

 The work is painted in a very pretty range of pink and white, highlighted with pale blue, ranging from the pink of the complexion to the rosy reflections of the kimono, the sheets and the pillowcases decorated with lace to the vermilion pink of the lips and the toile de jouy in the background.

 Marguerite, Mary Darbour was born in Florence, a city from which she would retain her taste for colors, perfect complexions and silks before completing her studies in Paris at the end of the 18th century. XIXth under the watchful eye of Henri Gervex. She exhibited female figures, nudes, portraits, landscapes at the Salon des Indépendants in 1903, at the Salons de la Nationale and des Tuileries in 1920.

The female nude is the artist's favorite subject, the one she treats best and which will give us her best paintings.