Nude Against the Light or Backlit Nude (French: Nu à contre-jour) is an oil-on-canvas painting by the French Post-Impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard, from 1908. It is now in the collection of the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, in Brussels.[1]
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| Artist | Pierre Bonnard |
| Year | 1908 |
| Medium | oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 124.5 cm × 109.2 cm (49.0 in × 43.0 in) |
| Location | Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels |
The work depicts the artist's partner and frequent model Marthe de Mėrigny applying eau de Cologne after a bath in a tub. She is nude and standing silhouetted against the light from the windows which fills the room with bright warm shadowless light and colour. The bather is reflected in a mirror, a characteristic feature of Bonnard's paintings.
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edit- ^ "Nu à contre-jour". Musées royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
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