Sevres
Also known as: Sevres
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The town on the Seine south-west of Paris. Marie knows it as the place where she painted her last large open-air picture, Le Printemps, in the old orchard in the spring and early summer of 1884, and once, earlier, as a destination of a day by train and as a porcelain name.
In Marie's diary
- 1874-05-30 (020.0002): «ayant déjeuné à la hâte chez Bénard, nous prenons le train et nous nous rendons à Sèvres.»
- 1874-09-29 (024.0159): «j'ai choisi un lustre de Sèvres pour moi» (the porcelain, not the town).
- 1884-03-19 to 03-24 (103.0554, 103.0561, 103.0578): «J'ai trouvé un verger à Sèvres»; «Pas encore commencé à Sèvres mais c'est trouvé»; «J'ai commencé hier un assez grand tableau dans le vieux verger de Sèvres.»
- 1884-04-10 to 07-01 (103.0777 to 104.0754): near-daily trips; 05-25 (104.0329): «Le paysage a tellement changé qu'on ne peut plus y toucher, ce n'est plus le printemps. Et puis mes fleurs de pommiers sont devenues jaunes»; 06-14 (104.0576): she brings a model and will use the family's kitchen maid instead; 07-01 (104.0754): «Encore l'odieux Sèvres !»
The picture is Le Printemps (RSR note at 104.0576).
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