Artist's Daughter with a Parakeet Canvas Print art nouveau paintings A repeating red petal grid

A repeating red petal grid sits against a calm pink ground

the dark greens hold everything down

and the pink pulls colour out of anything nearby — a velvet chair

soft pink or grey-blue walls

Artist's Daughter with a Parakeet Canvas Print art nouveau paintings A repeating red petal gridThree things it does fast: ground soft pink, sharpen linen, wake the bedroom. Berthe Morisot painted her teenage daughter Julie in 1890 with feathery, half finished brushwork that lets light through the canvas. On the wall, the soft pinks and cream calm a room without flattening it, while the small flash of green parakeet keeps things from going too sweet. Hang it above a low bed, a painted chest of drawers, or a reading chair near a window it likes