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André Ostier, Pierre Bonnard, 1941, silver gelatin photograph (Detail)
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Pierre BONNARD | Balcony at Vernonnet [Le Balcon à Vernonnet]
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Pierre BONNARD
France 1867 – 1947
Balcony at Vernonnet
[Le Balcon à Vernonnet] c. 1920
oil on canvas
100.0 (h) x 78.0 (w) cm
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Brest
Answer the following questions:
  1. Describe this garden
  2. Imagine you are the little child in the foreground. What would it feel like to wade through the grass?
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