Gonzalès often asked her sister Jeanne (also a talented artist) to model for her quiet domestic scenes of daily life, and she likely posed as the fashionable sitter shown here arranging violets in a blue vase. This
intimate pastel, with its pearly gray and pink palette and an ensemble of pictorial elements that stimulate the senses—from the rustling gown to the fragrant flowers—strikes a chord with works made in the late 1870s
by her former teacher, Edouard Manet.
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