midautumnnightdream:Marie Bashkirtseff - La RéunionThough [Marie Bashkirtseff] trailed an entourage

midautumnnightdream:Marie Bashkirtseff - La RéunionThough [Marie Bashkirtseff] trailed an entourage behind her, she did spend days walking the slums of Paris with her notebook in hand, sketching everything she saw, research which would produce numerous paintings, including 1884′s A Meeting, which now hangs in the Musée d’Orsay in Paris, and depicts a group of young street urchins gathered on a street corner. One of them holds a bird’s nest, and shows it off to the others, who lean in with that boyish interest that tries to disguise itself as total indifference.But she found a way to include herself in the streetscape. To the right of the group of boys, leading down another street, we can see in the background a young girl from behind, braid down her back, walking away, possibly on her own, though it’s difficult to know for sure because the frame cuts of there…— Lauren Elkin. Flâneuse. Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice and London -- source link

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