Michel Garnier / The Defenseless Rose / 1789

Michel Garnier
The Defenseless Rose
1789
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Creator Name: Garnier, Michel
Creator Nationality: European; French
Creator Role: painter
Creator Dates/Places: 1793 - 1793
Gender: M
Creator Name-CRT: Michel Garnier
Title: The Defenseless Rose
View: front
Creation Start Date: 1789
Creation End Date: 1789
Creation Date: 1789
Object Type: Paintings
Materials and Techniques: oil on canvas
Dimensions: H.18-3/16 x W.14-13/16 in.
Inscriptions: SIGNATURE
AMICA Contributor: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Owner Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
ID Number: 64.63.1
Credit Line: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky
Rights: http://www.artsmia.org/restrictions.html
Context:

Although there is no proof that these paintings were created as pendants, the similar size, complementary subject matter, and the appearance of the same young woman, indicate that they form the "before" and "after" of a moralizing narrative on romantic love. In The Poorly Defended Rose, both the young woman's inability to prevent her lover from picking the rose, and the broken vase at her feet, predict her moral compromise. In The Letter, with her seduction complete, the young woman must "make do" with the proxy miniature portrait her lover has sent as consolation for his absence.

Michel Garnier possessed a delicate and highly polished manner that was particularly suited to depicting the elegant life style of fashionable Parisians. The artist's attention to detail - furniture, fabric, and sculpture - accurately conveys the richness of the era's interiors. Although the subject matter in these paintings is more Rococo in sentiment, the solidly-modeled forms and their placement on a shallow 'stage' are more typical of Neoclassical compositions.

AMICA ID: MIA_.64.63.1
Component Measured: overall
Measurement Unit: in
AMICA Library Year: 1998
Media Metadata Rights: ?The Minneapolis Institute of Arts

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