Why it matters
Morisot's husband Eugène Manet looks out of a hotel window at women in white and boats in the harbour. She painted it on their honeymoon at Cowes in 1875.
Did you know?
- Eugène was the brother of Édouard Manet.
- Painting from behind a curtain has been read as a sign of the constraints on women at the time.
- It is in the Musée Marmottan Monet.
Based on the Wikipedia article Eugène Manet on the Isle of Wight (CC BY-SA 4.0).
