1920, Pierre Bonnard, Earthly Paradise -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The view from Bonnard's garden at his home Ma Roulotte (My Caravan) served as the inspiration for the background of Earthly Paradise, painted some six years after he had been living on the banks of the Seine at Vernonnet in Normandy. The painting alludes to the story of Adam and Eve-casting a slender Bonnard, standing beside a tree at left, as the first man and his wife, Marthe, at lower right, as the voluptuous first woman. They co-exist in a garden of Eden filled with various creatures--birds, rabbits, a monkey, and a garden snake.
1920, Pierre Bonnard, Earthly Paradise -- Phillips Collection (Washington) (special exhibition)
From the exhibition label: The view from Bonnard's garden at his home Ma Roulotte (My Caravan) served as the inspiration for the background of Earthly Paradise, painted some six years after he had been living on the banks of the Seine at Vernonnet in Normandy. The painting alludes to the story of Adam and Eve-casting a slender Bonnard, standing beside a tree at left, as the first man and his wife, Marthe, at lower right, as the voluptuous first woman. They co-exist in a garden of Eden filled with various creatures--birds, rabbits, a monkey, and a garden snake.