Bonnard, Young Women in the Garden

"And at the end, he returned to the painting of Renée, Young Women in the Garden. She is, we may recall, seated at the table, turned around in her wicker chair, facing towards us, smiling. Bonnard now added a cornflower backdrop, a brilliant curving golden swath, like a halo behind the blond Renée. After a second, we notice another, shadowy figure in the picture, back toward us, dark-haired, moody, and mysterious, just barely visible in the lower right corner, whom Renée is in fact looking past.

It is Marthe."

The Accidental Masterpiece: On The Art of Life and Viceversa, Michael Kimmelman

 "The beautiful is a promise of happiness". Stendhal